Speculative Vision of Trauma Recovery with Sandee Rodriguez, D. Thourson Palmer, and EDE Bell
1. Trauma isn't something that happens, heals, and ends.
2. Do your research if you are not familiar with the kind of trauma you are writing about.
3. Everyone's trauma experience is unique.
4. Do not refer to trauma as a wound. Wounds heal over time.
5. There is massive perspective to trauma. Reactions and interpretations will differ based on culture, location, etc.
Getting Past Writer's Block with Martin L. Shoemaker and Michael Cieslak
1. Don't be late (on your deadlines) and communicate (with your publisher)!
2. Writer's block is really just a bad part of your story asking to be fixed.
3. To achieve a writing Flow State you may need a writing routine including a specific writing time, place, and even writing clothing.
4. Having multiple projects to work on may help.
5. Being around other writers and READING will help.
How to Write a Duel with D. Thourson Palmer, Jen Nagle, A. Carina Spears, and Clif Flynt
1. The Five Parts of a Duel: Incident, Challenge, Seconds, Doctor and Meet Up to Confirm, Face Off
2. Rules for historic duels are written in the "Code Duello."
3. Historic duels were based on cultural ideas of how to use small scale, focused violence to stop large scale violence.
4. Don't have fights for no reason in your writing. Need to have stakes.
5. When writing a fight scene, use shorter sentences and make sure to set your scene ahead of time so that a chair or tree doesn't appear out of nowhere.
The Story Continues - How to Turn a Single Novel into a Series with Patrick S. Tomlinson, Anthony W. Eichenlamb, A. Carina Spears, and Jen Haeger
1. When self-publishing, may want to market books as a series even if they only have a thin connection.
2. Know when an idea is dead (ex. Ready Player Two).
3. Leave yourself threads to tug on in future stories.
4. Most publishers are not looking for single novels, they are looking for series.
5. One nice thing about self-publishing is that you can control or change where you tell your readers to start reading a series.
I Write, I Edit, I Write Again. Witness!
We're Making Better Words, All of Them, Better Words.
I Write to Burn Off the Crazy.
A Good Day Writing is a Day Writing.
It Puts the Words on the Page or It Gets the Hose Again.
Just Keep Writing...Just Keep Writing...Writing, Writing, Writing!
Writing is Magic!
The First Rule of Write Club is You Talk About Write Club.
If You Aren't Writing, You Aren't a Writer.