Zp Author: Rorberta Rogow
The 79th World Science Fiction Convention! We are bringing Worldcon back to Washington, DC, and we hope that you will join us there.
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Discon III
Discon III2021/12/15 10:00 - 2021/12/15 23:00
Zp Author: Rorberta Rogow
The 79th World Science Fiction Convention! We are bringing Worldcon back to Washington, DC, and we hope that you will join us there.
PhilCon 20212021/11/21 10:00 - 2021/11/21 16:00
ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow
Join us for the 84th anniversary of the world’s first and longest-running conference on science fiction, fantasy, and horror! Philcon 2021 will take place on November 19-21, 2021 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, NJ.
PhilCon 20212021/11/20 10:00 - 2021/11/20 23:00
ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow
Join us for the 84th anniversary of the world’s first and longest-running conference on science fiction, fantasy, and horror! Philcon 2021 will take place on November 19-21, 2021 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, NJ.
PhilCon 20212021/11/19 10:00 - 2021/11/19 23:00
ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow
Join us for the 84th anniversary of the world’s first and longest-running conference on science fiction, fantasy, and horror! Philcon 2021 will take place on November 19-21, 2021 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, NJ.
Flathead River Virtual Conference 20212021/10/17 - 2021/10/17
Babs Mountjoy, who writes for Zumaya as Alana Lorens and Lyndi Alexander, will be teaching two seminars at the Flathead River Virtual Conference. The classes will be: Writing the Series: How to Keep Stories Alive and Building Real and Alien Worlds.
Flathead River Virtual Conference 20212021/10/16 - 2021/10/16
Babs Mountjoy, who writes for Zumaya as Alana Lorens and Lyndi Alexander, will be teaching two seminars at the Flathead River Virtual Conference. The classes will be: Writing the Series: How to Keep Stories Alive and Building Real and Alien Worlds.
Flathead River Virtual Conference 20212021/10/15 10:00 - 2021/10/15 21:00
Babs Mountjoy, who writes for Zumaya as Alana Lorens and Lyndi Alexander, will be teaching two seminars at the Flathead River Virtual Conference. The classes will be: Writing the Series: How to Keep Stories Alive and Building Real and Alien Worlds.
Deep Valley Book Festival 20212021/10/02 09:30 - 2021/10/02 15:00
ZP Author: Katherine Sullivan
Celebrating Authors & Books
Pennwriters – Writing Fantasy and SciFi 20212021/10/01 08:00 - 2021/10/31 20:00
Pennwriters – Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction with Barbara Mountjoy (AKA Alana Lorens and Lyndi Alexander)
WEEK ONE:
Discussion of different types of sci fi (hard sci fi, space opera, etc) and fantasy, high fantasy, urban fantasy, etc. Writing assignment will be to sketch out a rough outline of the piece students will be working on for the class, using the above guidelines, whether a short story or novel beginning.
WEEK TWO:
Discussion of tropes and how to avoid them. Drawing characters. Power Point presentation on world-building. Lessons from AVATAR on how to shortcut some world-building by using similar concepts that people already know. Writing assignment will be to continue to embellish the outline with interesting characters, situations and oddities of the world they are creating.
WEEK THREE:
Watching Firefly episode “Out of Gas,” an exercise in learning how to insert small details so that it doesn’t look like heroes are God-moding when they can suddenly do everything at the climax. Writing exercise will be to analyze piece for possible placement of such details.
WEEK FOUR:
Sharing the works we’ve done over the month, feedback offered, “pickles of praise” as well as whatever participants request. Discussion of what might be done to expand this piece into something longer, and encouragement offered!