Archive for October, 2009
WLT at the Texas Book Festival
The Writers’ League of Texas will be at the Texas Book Festival this weekend. We will be located at booths 122 & 123 in the exhibits tent on Colorado between 12th and 13th streets.
Four Reasons Why You Should Stop by the WLT Booth:
1) Consider this an opportunity to meet and mingle with other literati-lovers in Texas. We know we’d love to meet you. Stop by and say hi!
2) This serves as a nice time for you to meet our new staff: Publicity and Programming Manager Jan Baumer, Office Manager Bethany Hegedus, and Bookkeeper Kate Meehan. We’re delighted to have these intelligent ladies working with us. Come welcome them!
3) We’re lucky to have WLT members who will be in our booth signing their books, click here to learn more about the member book signings. Come get your book signed!
4) We’ll be announcing the 2009 Book Awards winners! The ceremony will take place 3:30 Saturday in Room E.026 at the State Capital Extension. Come honor the winners and finalists!
Add comment October 29, 2009
Master Class: Character in Fiction and Nonfiction
Successful Characterization with Tracy Daugherty
- Tracy Daugherty
1 – 5 p.m. Friday, October 30
at the Writers’ League office
611 S. Congress Ave., Suite 130$99 members / $159 nonmembers
One way to think about successful characterization in either fiction or nonfiction is to say that characters work best when they match the narrative situation. That is, in the short-hand that is literary craft, everything they do illustrates their core qualities and values. Within the narrative parameters you have established, everything about the character’s nature is clear to the reader.
Instructor and acclaimed author Tracy Daugherty will help explore strategies for creating successful characters in a narrative, whether it is fiction or nonfiction. Together the class will write and share work and ideas, and the instructor will provide published examples of characterization. The class will be in a lecture/discussion format.
Students will learn:
- a firm concept of characterization
- a sense of effective dialogue in fiction and nonfiction
- an understanding of tone, as it relates to characterization
- strategies for developing narrative situations that effectively illustrate character
- an understanding of how to build story from character, rather than the other way around
Interested? Register here.
Add comment October 27, 2009
Book in a Month: Novel Writing Tool Kit
Novel Writing Online Class with Kit Frazier
Kit Frazier
Self study, online course
starts Oct. 26 – Nov. 30, 2009
$149 WLT members / $209 nonmembers
Kit Frazier
Just in time for National Novel Writing Month! Whether you’re thinking about writing a novel or mired in the middle of your work in progress, this is the class for you. The intensive course of study reviews Christopher Vogler’s The Hero’s Journey’s three-act structure and Debra Dixon’s Goal, Motivation, and Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction, and breaks these concepts down into a manageable, 30-day writing regimen, with particular emphasis on those all-important first five pages and middle-of-the-story conflict.
The Book in a Month Tool Kit includes:
- PowerPoint Videos of Class Instruction
- Personal Goal Tracker Calendar
- Character Worksheets
- Character Goal, Motivation & Conflict Sheets
- Story Board Worksheets
- Time Tracker Worksheets
Add comment October 22, 2009
The Writers’ League of Texas 2009 Bookish Brunch
Reservations extended until Wednesday, October 28th!
The Bookish Brunch
Honoring:
Texas Book Festival Authors
Click on their image and read the author’s bio.
Also honoring the 2009 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award Winners
9 to 10:30 am, Sunday, November 1
At the home of Frances Townsend & Ted Gilman in Austin
$40 WLT members/$50 nonmembers
Proceeds benefit the Writers’ League of Texas
For more information, please visit our Bookish Brunch page.
Add comment October 2, 2009
