Summer Springboard for Writers presented by Kathy MacMillan
6 week series; each webinar is 30 minutes long. Tuesdays July 7-August 11, 2020 at 10 AM Eastern/9 AM Central/8 AM Mountain/7 AM Pacific
SCBWI Members: $30; Non-members: $75. Your registration covers all 6 webinars in the series. Recording access and add-on critiques available.
Spring into to your writing time with these mini-webinars, designed to focus on the details of craft. Each lesson will give you specific, actionable steps you can take to improve your writing right away – and offer activities and prompts to practice your new skill, complete with presenter Q&A time. Watch live or recorded at the beginning of your writing time and get inspired!
Weekly topics:
- July 7: Big Picture Story Framing
- July 14: Dazzling Dialogue
- July 21: Meaningful Action
- July 28: Compelling Details
- August 7: Emboldening Each Line
- August 11: Taking the Reader Along
Taking off the Training Wheels presented by Kathy MacMillan
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 7 PM Eastern/6 PM Central/5 PM Mountain/4 PM Pacific. 90-minute webinar.
Neil Gaiman says fanfiction can act as a training ground for writing original fiction. Is he right? Kathy MacMillan, Compton Crook Award Finalist and author of fiction and nonfiction for children, teens, and adults Kathy MacMillan, discusses how writing fanfic in the Harry Potter, Star Trek, and Babylon 5 fandoms prepared her for creating fictional worlds of her own. $40 per person. Add-on critiques available.
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