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Workshop & General Sessions
FICTION
• All for Naughty: Tackling Taboo Subjects - Portes
• Intuitive Structure: Exploiting What You Already Know - Cartwright
• Kill Your Ego: Taming the Inner Shrew - Portes
• Read & Critique - Pallamary
• Read & Critique - Taylor
• Read & Critique - Reeves
• Read & Critique - Strait
• Rewriting Novels and Narrative Nonfiction - Jenkins
• Rules for New World Building - Cartwright
• Speed Date Your Ideas: How to Identify "The One" - Cartwright
• Transformative Narrative: A Shamanic Approach to Story Structure - Pallamary
• To be announced - Castillo
• Writing in Bed: Processesing Performance - Portes
• More to be announced
NONFICTION
• Ethics in Nonfiction Writing - Corona
• Fact and Storytelling in Nonfiction - Corona
• Read & Critique - Pallamary
• Read & Critique - Taylor
• Read & Critique - Reeves
• Read & Critique - Strait
• Rewriting Novels and Narrative Nonfiction - Jenkins
• Transformative Narrative: A Shamanic Approach to Story Structure - Pallamary
• More to be announced
BUSINESS & ALTERNATIVE
• The Author/Publisher Journey - De Young & Peterson
• How to Avoid the Maalox Moment with a Publisher - Price
• I've Written 'The End' — Now What? - Price
• Pitch it to Me: Let's Fix Your Book Pitch! - Miller
• Risk Points 1: Queries and Submissions - Sirota
• Risk Points 2: Story and Execution - Sirota
• More to be announced
THE NOVEL CRAM: BUILDING A BETTER BOOK*
Immersion track conducted by Drusilla Campbell. (Full details here)
– Goals, Orientation and Organization
– Prewriting the Practice Novel
– Plotting the Novel
– Chapter One
– Character Construction
– Scene, Dialogue and Conclict
– Read and Critique of Chapter One
– Completing the Novel
– Author Orientation: One-on-one Discussion
*Available only to a limited number of participants.
Advance Submission Critique
The SCWC*LA offers Advance Submission Critique of manuscripts, followed by
one-on-one consultation with our respective Reader(s) for an additional fee of $50. You will find
Readers' criterion under their bios on the Staff Bios page. If you are
uncertain of who would be best for you, e-mail Michael Steven
Gregory or phone him at (619) 303-8185 for guidance.
Submissions must be received by September 6, 2008.
Advance Manuscript Critique is available only to registered Full or Saturday/Sunday conferees. Appointment times
for individual one-on-one consults will be made available at the Registration Desk upon check-in.
Address your manuscript to the appropriate Reader c/o SCWC*LA, 1010 University Ave., #54, San Diego, CA 92103. You
may register first then submit your material later, as long as material is received on or before the deadline.
You may also submit material to more than one reader, accompanied by additional payment.
For detailed information on formatting and what to expect from your one-on-one consultation, click
All You Need to Know about Advance Submissions.
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FRIDAY, September 26