First thing Friday morning, I nipped down to the post office to mail my registration for the Write Stuff Conference – In Allentown, PA (March 25-27).
This will be my third year there. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll be among those lucky enough to register in time for the two-day, pre-conference workshop, How to Plot Like The Pros, with James N. Frey (How To Write a Damn Good Novel).
For the main event, which starts on the Friday evening and finishes the next day at around 5:00pm, I hope to get a place on Page Cuts, in which the anonymous first page of your WIP is read aloud then critiqued by a panel of industry professionals, and a two-hour workshop, Start a Fire on Page One, with Bill Kent.
There are plenty of other things going on (see here for the conference web-page – scroll down for the ‘Conference at a glance’ section), including workshops, agent/editor appointments and the annual 100-word fiction/non-fiction/poetry contests, but the main attraction for me is the people.
Last year, I’d say about 150 writers attended. Everyone was friendly. I felt like I was at a happy event with distant relatives (without the bickering and family feuds).
If I could only pick one con to attend this year, The Write Stuff would be it (lucky for me, I don’t have to. Come November, I’ll be at PhilCon).
How about you?
Which cons do you plan to attend this year?
ETA: (which, thanks to
jimhines, I now know means "Edited to add") Does anyone know of a site where folks can find info about writing conventions?
This will be my third year there. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll be among those lucky enough to register in time for the two-day, pre-conference workshop, How to Plot Like The Pros, with James N. Frey (How To Write a Damn Good Novel).
For the main event, which starts on the Friday evening and finishes the next day at around 5:00pm, I hope to get a place on Page Cuts, in which the anonymous first page of your WIP is read aloud then critiqued by a panel of industry professionals, and a two-hour workshop, Start a Fire on Page One, with Bill Kent.
There are plenty of other things going on (see here for the conference web-page – scroll down for the ‘Conference at a glance’ section), including workshops, agent/editor appointments and the annual 100-word fiction/non-fiction/poetry contests, but the main attraction for me is the people.
Last year, I’d say about 150 writers attended. Everyone was friendly. I felt like I was at a happy event with distant relatives (without the bickering and family feuds).
If I could only pick one con to attend this year, The Write Stuff would be it (lucky for me, I don’t have to. Come November, I’ll be at PhilCon).
How about you?
Which cons do you plan to attend this year?
ETA: (which, thanks to
jimhines, I now know means "Edited to add") Does anyone know of a site where folks can find info about writing conventions?- Current Mood:
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We're contemplating Shore Leave, a July con in Hunt Valley, Maryland that is especially geared to Star Trek writers/readers. It's one of the only fan-run Trek cons, making it a breath of fresh air compared to the for-profit media cons.
No Worldcon for us this year, unfortunately.
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