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Essentials of Writing & Publishing
Next Level Sh*t: Revising & Strengthening Your Work
Publishing & Promotion
The Craft of Fiction
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The Writer's Life; Guidance & Tips
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Saturday
, April 7
Back Bay Room - 4th Floor
4:15pm •
8G: Laughing at a Funeral: Mixing Emotional Tones in Writing
FULL
Beacon Hill Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5A: 7 Key Questions to Answer to Successfully Publish Your Nonfiction Book
12:45pm •
6J: Social Media Hack: Utilizing Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to Authentically Engage (But Not Annoy) Readers
2:45pm •
7G: The Art of Perspective
4:15pm •
8E: Experimental Writing for Non-Experimental Writers
Boylston Room - Mezzanine Level
5:30pm •
Writers of Color Meet-Up
7:00pm •
Spitballing...Returns!
Cabot Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5F: Keynote "Carryover" Conversation on Cultural Appropriation
FULL
12:45pm •
6L: The Novelist as Dramatist: Action in Fiction
FULL
2:45pm •
7F: Outsider as Insider: Subverting and Resisting Cultural Expectations in Fiction
4:15pm •
8K: Social Justice Story Telling
FULL
Cambridge Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5H: Problem Solving for Novels-in-Progress
12:45pm •
6F: Lessons from the Novel Incubator
2:45pm •
7K: When Do I Need An Author Website and What Belongs On It?
4:15pm •
8H: New Digital Tools for 2018: Make Your Social Media Marketing Easier and More Effective
Charles River Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5B: The Motivated Writer: Using Athletes' Techniques to Keep Yourself Going: Section A
12:45pm •
6C: Consider the Sentence: A Love Story
2:45pm •
7L: Word by Word: An Exercise in Close Reading
FULL
4:15pm •
8I: Rage Is a Red Lesson: How to Turn Anger into Charged Prose
Emerson Room - 4th Floor
12:45pm •
6I: Reppin': Minority Writers on Responsibility, Hypocrisy & the Voices in Our Heads
2:45pm •
7A: All-Conference Read in Non-Fiction: ANIMALS STRIKE CURIOUS POSES by Elena Passarello
Franklin Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5D: Don't Get Stuck in the Slush! 10 Pitfalls to Avoid When Submitting to Literary Magazines
FULL
12:45pm •
6G: Matching Your Work to Literary Magazines: What Do They *Really* Want?
2:45pm •
7H: The Motivated Writer: Using Athletes' Techniques to Keep Yourself Going: Section B
FULL
4:15pm •
8F: Indie Publishing: A Viable Path to A Full-Time Career in Writing Fiction
FULL
Gloucester Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5M: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Finding Your Missing Plot Points
Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine
9:00am •
Mid-Muse Keynote: "Appropriation: Uh-oh, No-no, or #Appropro?"
Newbury Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5E: Essentials of Dialogue
12:45pm •
6H: Productive Revision, Or How to Stop Perfecting Paragraphs and Strengthen Your Story: Section B
12:45pm •
6H: Productive Revision, Or How to Stop Perfecting Paragraphs and Strengthen Your Story: Section B
FULL
2:45pm •
7I: The People-Pleaser's Guide to Plot
FULL
4:15pm •
8B: Avoiding the Common Pitfalls of Writing About Black Life
St. James Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5G: Multilingual Writing: Code Switching and Language Games
12:45pm •
6E: How to Get *Really* Personal in Your Personal Essay
2:45pm •
7E: Non-Fiction Idea Clinic
FULL
4:15pm •
8A: A Vampire of Your Own: Using the Personal To Write the Fantastic
Stuart Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5K: Working with a Publicist: Understanding the Relationship and Getting the Most Out of It
FULL
12:45pm •
6B: Agents and Editors of Color Roundtable
2:45pm •
7J: Violent Delights & Violent Ends: What to Consider When Writing Violence in Fiction and Nonfiction
4:15pm •
8L: Suspense, Stakes, & Whimsy: Borrowing from Genre for Your Fiction
TBA
7:30am •
Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet, Bookstore & Authors' Bazaar Browsing
11:45am •
Lunch Break
2:15pm •
Break
5:15pm •
Lit Lounge
Tremont Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5J: The Fine Art of Investigation
FULL
12:45pm •
6K: The Nonfiction Narrator
4:15pm •
8M: Writing a Winning Nonfiction Proposal
White Hill Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5I: Query Clinic: Live Feedback on Query Letters
12:45pm •
6D: First Page Clinic: Making the Most of It
2:45pm •
7C: Editing: Love It, Hate It, Just Delete It
4:15pm •
8C: Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction
Whittier Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5C: Conjuring Mystery in Fiction
FULL
12:45pm •
6M: Your Book Starts Here: Build a Successful Structure for Your Manuscript in Any Genre
FULL
2:45pm •
7B: Dare to Break the Ultimate Writing Rule: Why "Show Don't Tell" Is a Crock
FULL
4:15pm •
8D: Creating Pictures with Words: How and Why Visual Writing Works
FULL
Winthrop Room - 4th Floor
10:30am •
5L: Writing Like a Parent, Parenting Like a Writer
12:45pm •
6A: "But You're So Inspirational!" Writing Authentically About Disability
2:45pm •
7D: Learning From the (Very) Old-Timers: Modern Uses of Pre-Modern Fiction
FULL
4:15pm •
8J: Should I Do an MFA?
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