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Content, Character & Connection: Saturday, January 28th.
On Saturday, January 28th, San Francisco literary agents, Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada will conduct a humor-filled day-long workshop that can transform your career.
Gain first-hand insight into how agents, editors and publishers work, which publishing option is best for you, why now is the best time to be an author... and much more!
Walk-in registration is welcome, but please let us know you're planning to come by emailing info@centralcoastwriters.org. Download the registration form, fill it out and bring it with your check to the workshop Saturday morning.
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Regular Meeting: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Tanya Egan Gibson
Building A Vibrant Fictional World
Who wants to hang out someplace boring? Not you. And not your readers, either.
Yet often while we worry about making our characters exciting and our plots clever, we relegate setting to backdrop--something to be decorated after the major story work is done. The result can be a story in which everything feels a bit disconnected, unreal.
Envisioning the "world" of your fiction early and thoroughly, on the other hand, allows setting to shape your characters and propel them into action. So how do you build a world that is unique yet believable, exciting yet grounded? Learn the various ways you can get the details of places right (even without a travel budget), how to make your world exciting, and and how to use your world to strengthen both plot and characterization.
Tanya Egan Gibson is the author of the novel How To Buy a Love of Reading, which was published by Dutton in May 2009, has been translated into Italian and Spanish, and had its paperback release by Plume in July 2010. Her short fiction has been published in Carve magazine, where it was nominated for a Pushcart Prize; her short fiction for young adults has been published in Cicada. She has written several articles about worldbuilding and the craft of fiction for The Writer. Her work has appeared in the anthology Milk & Ink: A Mosaic of Motherhood, and is forthcoming in Parents magazine.
She would love if you visited her interactive website, http://www.howtobuyaloveofreading.com, and shared a story about how reading changed your life.
MEETINGS
The third Tuesday of the month. Mark your
calendar and join us.
Bay Park Hotel
1425 Munras Avenue
Monterey - (831) 649-1020
5:30pm - Dinner: $15
"All you can eat" salad bar, tax, tip and non-alcoholic beverage. Purchase dinner tickets at the CCW Check-in table.
Sorry, cash only.
Bring exact change if you can. 6:30pm - Meeting
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Content, Character & Connection:
Tanya Egan Gibson is the author of the novel How To Buy a Love of Reading, which was published by Dutton in May 2009, has been translated into Italian and Spanish, and had its paperback release by Plume in July 2010. Her short fiction has been published in Carve magazine, where it was nominated for a Pushcart Prize; her short fiction for young adults has been published in Cicada. She has written several articles about worldbuilding and the craft of fiction for The Writer. Her work has appeared in the anthology Milk & Ink: A Mosaic of Motherhood, and is forthcoming in Parents magazine.