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Muse & the Marketplace 2018

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Mid-Muse Keynote: "Appropriation: Uh-oh, No-no, or #Appropro?"

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Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet, Bookstore & Authors' Bazaar Browsing

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Lunch Break

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Lit Lounge

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Spitballing...Returns!

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Break

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7B: Dare to Break the Ultimate Writing Rule: Why "Show Don't Tell" Is a Crock

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6M: Your Book Starts Here: Build a Successful Structure for Your Manuscript in Any Genre

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5C: Conjuring Mystery in Fiction

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6D: First Page Clinic: Making the Most of It

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7C: Editing: Love It, Hate It, Just Delete It

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8D: Creating Pictures with Words: How and Why Visual Writing Works

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5I: Query Clinic: Live Feedback on Query Letters

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8C: Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction

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8G: Laughing at a Funeral: Mixing Emotional Tones in Writing

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8E: Experimental Writing for Non-Experimental Writers

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7G: The Art of Perspective

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5H: Problem Solving for Novels-in-Progress

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5J: The Fine Art of Investigation

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7K: When Do I Need An Author Website and What Belongs On It?

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5A: 7 Key Questions to Answer to Successfully Publish Your Nonfiction Book

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6F: Lessons from the Novel Incubator

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6J: Social Media Hack: Utilizing Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to Authentically Engage (But Not Annoy) Readers

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8M: Writing a Winning Nonfiction Proposal

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6K: The Nonfiction Narrator

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7H: The Motivated Writer: Using Athletes' Techniques to Keep Yourself Going: Section B

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6H: Productive Revision, Or How to Stop Perfecting Paragraphs and Strengthen Your Story: Section B

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7I: The People-Pleaser's Guide to Plot

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8L: Suspense, Stakes, & Whimsy: Borrowing from Genre for Your Fiction

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5D: Don't Get Stuck in the Slush! 10 Pitfalls to Avoid When Submitting to Literary Magazines

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8F: Indie Publishing: A Viable Path to A Full-Time Career in Writing Fiction

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5E: Essentials of Dialogue

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5K: Working with a Publicist: Understanding the Relationship and Getting the Most Out of It

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6G: Matching Your Work to Literary Magazines: What Do They *Really* Want?

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7J: Violent Delights & Violent Ends: What to Consider When Writing Violence in Fiction and Nonfiction

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7F: Outsider as Insider: Subverting and Resisting Cultural Expectations in Fiction

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5F: Keynote "Carryover" Conversation on Cultural Appropriation

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8H: New Digital Tools for 2018: Make Your Social Media Marketing Easier and More Effective

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7E: Non-Fiction Idea Clinic

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7L: Word by Word: An Exercise in Close Reading

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6B: Agents and Editors of Color Roundtable

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8I: Rage Is a Red Lesson: How to Turn Anger into Charged Prose

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6E: How to Get *Really* Personal in Your Personal Essay

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8K: Social Justice Story Telling

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6L: The Novelist as Dramatist: Action in Fiction

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5B: The Motivated Writer: Using Athletes' Techniques to Keep Yourself Going: Section A

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6C: Consider the Sentence: A Love Story

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8B: Avoiding the Common Pitfalls of Writing About Black Life

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5M: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Finding Your Missing Plot Points

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7D: Learning From the (Very) Old-Timers: Modern Uses of Pre-Modern Fiction