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Guys, I’ve been approved for a booth at my first convention of choice!
Visit my info table at AgamaCon 2017, March 3-5, in Aiken, South Carolina to view pre-release copies of my novels, Humans In My House and Acephalous, and chat with me about the writing process (yours or mine!).
I’m hoping to also get tables at Katsucon (should know by the end of August), Florence Comicon, Dragon Con 2017, IchibanCon 8, and XCON 10. I’m waiting for the latter to open applications. My lofty future goals include CatCon LA and Sac-ComiCon, but California is a long way to travel pre-publication.
Regardless, I look forward to traveling and to schmoozing with all of you. If you see me at a convention, stop by and say hi!
Visit Red Ink Enthusiast on Friday, September 2 at Broadway At The Beach from 6 to 9pm for the Coastal Uncorked Mixology Competition. Taste our Red Ink-themed moonshine cocktail entry and learn more about our writing services. Special Red Ink Enthusiast promo swag to the first 200 visitors!
NaNoWriMo is over but that doesn’t mean you have to stop writing. Whether you’re looking to continue your WriMo stories or start a new project, these notes on characters can give you a fresh approach to the task. In the All About Characters session at this year’s James River Writers Conference, Philippa Ballantine and Lydia Netzer, led by Lana Krumwiede, used the analogy of an office full of employees (your characters) to illustrate the various issues writers, as the boss, can run into when creating convincing characters that get the job done.
Boss Challenge 1: Motivating your Employees
Boss Challenge 2: Setting Goals for your Employees
Boss Challenge 3: Delegating Responsibility and Empowering the Employees
Boss Challenge 4: Keep the Door Open for your Employees
Boss Challenge 5: Embracing Egalitarianism
This session was one of the most helpful I attended, and I hope you can get some use out of the tips as well. Feel free to tell me your favorite tip or an aha moment you’ve had about creating authentic and self-sufficient characters in the comments below. Good luck wrapping up with NaNoWriMo and with the projects that develop through the coming holidays. Holiday time with family and friends always provides great material.
As always, happy writing!
–Amanda Marsico
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Essay-writing season is dwindling down and there are only four more weeks of classes left which means I get to share another set of tips and insights from the 2013 James River Writers Conference. In the third session I attended, Kathryn Erskine, Elizabeth Huergo, and Dean King, led by moderator Gigi Amateau, discussed creating settings. Here are the key points about making a vital and purposeful setting in fiction writing:
Non-setting advice from the session:
Hope you all are making progress on any projects you’ve started, and that these insights are as useful to you as they were to me. If you like these tips, be sure to check out the first two installments here and here, the first of which has also been published by the Penmen Review, here. Thanks for reading and, as always,
Happy writing!
–Amanda Marsico
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As promised, I’m here with installment two of the JWRC13 sessions review. The second session I attended was led by the 2013 finalists in fiction for the Library of Virginia Literary Awards: Gigi Amateau, Clifford Garstang, Robert Goolrick, Lydia Netzer, and Kevin Powers, moderated by Peggy J. Bagget. They graciously shared insights into their personal processes of writing fiction novels and answered audience questions about craft and publication. Here is what I learned based on their extensive experience and advice.
It was wonderful to hear such useful tips from award-winning authors—outliners and discovery writers alike. I hope there’s a gem of inspiration that suits each of your needs and methods no matter how you go about planning and completing the arduous task that is fiction writing. Stay tuned for the third installment on creating setting, coming soon.
Happy writing,
–Amanda Marsico
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After giving myself a few days to let the information overload of the 2013 James River Writers Conference settle, I’m finally getting around to sharing the great tips I learned. Today, I’m going to give you the notes I took during the “Suspense Across the Genres” session, with speakers Philippa Ballantine, Christopher McDougall, Kevin O’Malley, and Howard Owen, moderated by Julie Geen.
I hope these tips on suspense and plot progression are as useful to you as they have been to me. As soon as I got home from the conference I pulled what I thought was my finished manuscript out of its binder and started rearranging pages, marking through dull moments, and rewriting the unnecessary. Remember, change is good!
Happy writing,
–Amanda Marsico
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