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Muse & the Marketplace 2018

10:15am EDT

1C: Navigating Your Novel’s Murky Middle Gloucester Room - 4th FloorLisa Borders 1H: The Blazing Thing: On Imagination in Fiction Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorLaura van den Berg 1I: Voice in Nonfiction: What is Your Voice and How Can You Reclaim it?FULL Newbury Room - 4th FloorVanessa Martír 1K: Your First 100 Words: Grounding Readers in Your Fiction Cambridge Room - 4th FloorRon MacLean 1L: Your Narrator's Time Signature: Finding the Right Tempo During Dialogue Franklin Room - 4th FloorRavi Howard

11:45am EDT

2A: A Man Walks into a...: Writing Compelling Scenes in Fiction Cambridge Room - 4th FloorBlair Hurley 2C: Essentials of CharacterizationFULL Stuart Room - 4th FloorStacy Mattingly 2F: Novels: Writing the Opening Pages Tremont Room - 4th FloorSteve Yarbrough 2G: Politics and Prose: Tackling the Issues of Our Time Through Fiction and Narrative NonfictionFULL Newbury Room - 4th FloorAdam Stumacher 2J: Shut Up and Listen: Crafting Literary Voice from Literal Voices Cabot Room - 4th FloorXhenet Aliu

2:15pm EDT

3B: Dreams, Visions, and Hallucinations in Fiction Tremont Room - 4th FloorTim Weed 3I: Saying the UnsayableFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorBrendan Mathews 3J: Simultaneity (or Queering Time) Gloucester Room - 4th FloorPaul Lisicky 3K: When the Universal is Just Mainstream: Writing Rules That Fail Queer Authors Winthrop Room - 4th FloorMilo Todd 3L: Write in the Feels: Fictional EmotionFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorMia Alvar 3M: Writing the Past to Speak of the PresentFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorGabrielle Lucille Fuentes

3:45pm EDT

4A: Essentials of Humor Stuart Room - 4th FloorSteve Macone 4B: Essentials of StyleFULL Gloucester Room - 4th FloorNicole Miller 4C: Find the Skeleton of Your Story: Using Structure to Gain PropulsionFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorEmily X.R. Pan 4F: How to Write Long—But Not Long-Winded—Sentences Cabot Room - 4th FloorTim Horvath 4G: Introducing Unforgettable CharactersFULL White Hill Room - 4th FloorUrsula DeYoung 4H: Queerer Than Fiction: The Importance of Realistic, Integral LGBT Characters Winthrop Room - 4th FloorKarina van Berkum • Lisa Rosinsky 4I: Rebel, Rebel: Writing Rules that Can—and Sometimes Should—Be Broken Newbury Room - 4th FloorLisa Borders 4K: Who Am I Really: Reporting the Self in Writing Tremont Room - 4th FloorAlexander Chee 4L: World Building in Historical Fiction Franklin Room - 4th FloorKim van Alkemade

10:30am EDT

5A: 7 Key Questions to Answer to Successfully Publish Your Nonfiction Book Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorKatrin Schumann 5C: Conjuring Mystery in FictionFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorMaud Casey 5G: Multilingual Writing: Code Switching and Language Games St. James Room - 4th FloorDenise Delgado 5H: Problem Solving for Novels-in-Progress Cambridge Room - 4th FloorCrystal King 5M: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Finding Your Missing Plot Points Gloucester Room - 4th FloorHannah Tinti

12:45pm EDT

6C: Consider the Sentence: A Love Story Charles River Room - 4th FloorRobert Cohen 6F: Lessons from the Novel Incubator Cambridge Room - 4th FloorMichelle Hoover 6L: The Novelist as Dramatist: Action in FictionFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorStuart Spencer 6M: Your Book Starts Here: Build a Successful Structure for Your Manuscript in Any GenreFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorMary Carroll Moore

2:45pm EDT

7B: Dare to Break the Ultimate Writing Rule: Why "Show Don't Tell" Is a CrockFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorSteve Almond 7C: Editing: Love It, Hate It, Just Delete It White Hill Room - 4th FloorEve Attermann • Rachel Barenbaum 7D: Learning From the (Very) Old-Timers: Modern Uses of Pre-Modern FictionFULL Winthrop Room - 4th FloorKanishk Tharoor 7F: Outsider as Insider: Subverting and Resisting Cultural Expectations in Fiction Cabot Room - 4th FloorPatricia Engel 7G: The Art of Perspective Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorChristopher Castellani 7I: The People-Pleaser's Guide to PlotFULL Newbury Room - 4th FloorDiana Renn 7J: Violent Delights & Violent Ends: What to Consider When Writing Violence in Fiction and Nonfiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorKelly J. Ford • Stephanie Gayle • Emily Ross 7L: Word by Word: An Exercise in Close ReadingFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorJim Shepard • Karen Shepard

4:15pm EDT

8A: A Vampire of Your Own: Using the Personal To Write the Fantastic St. James Room - 4th FloorJohn Langan 8B: Avoiding the Common Pitfalls of Writing About Black Life Newbury Room - 4th FloorNicole Blades 8C: Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction White Hill Room - 4th FloorTim Weed 8E: Experimental Writing for Non-Experimental Writers Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorPorochista Khakpour 8G: Laughing at a Funeral: Mixing Emotional Tones in WritingFULL Back Bay Room - 4th FloorE. Thomas Finan 8I: Rage Is a Red Lesson: How to Turn Anger into Charged Prose Charles River Room - 4th FloorSteve Almond 8K: Social Justice Story TellingFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 8L: Suspense, Stakes, & Whimsy: Borrowing from Genre for Your Fiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorMichelle Hoover

10:00am EDT

9A: Establishing AuthorityFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorRob Spillman 9B: Fantastic Extremes: The Environments of Speculative Fiction Winthrop Room - 4th FloorSara Rivera 9G: Shaping Time in Fiction and Nonfiction Tremont Room - 4th FloorEthan Gilsdorf 9I: The 2nd Draft: Radically Re-Imagining Your Novel Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorMarjan Kamali 9K: Writing the City St. James Room - 4th FloorMira T. Lee • Val Wang

11:30am EDT

10C: Essentials of Backstory and Flashback in FictionFULL White Hill Room - 4th FloorTim Weed 10D: How to Write an Autobiographical NovelFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorAlexander Chee 10E: I'll Build Me a World St. James Room - 4th FloorRion Amilcar Scott 10G: Reading Across Time: Literature, Exile, Revolt Cabot Room - 4th FloorAzareen Van der Vliet Oloomi 10H: The Psychology of Character: Digging to the Heart of Motivation Cambridge Room - 4th FloorLynne Griffin 10I: The Whole Story Winthrop Room - 4th FloorMichael Lowenthal 10L: You Know More Than You Think: Writing Past the Rational Newbury Room - 4th FloorTasneem Zehra Husain