Saturday
May 21, 2005

8:00 to 9:15 a.m.

• Registration and Coffee
• Sign Up for One-on-One Sessions
  

9:30 to 10:15 a.m.

• Ad Hudler - Collectively Creating a Character
• Judy Stough - Organizing Information for Effective Memoir Writing
• Allison Glock - Making It as a Freelancer: First the Query Letter
• Eddie Bell - Calling All Poets: Improvisational Workshop!
  

10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

• Gerhardt Thamm and Gary Buffone - Advice for First Time Writers
• Bill Belleville and Elizabeth Furdell - Researching and Writing nonfiction
• Les Standiford - Stolen from the Movies: The Secrets of Best-Selling Fiction
• Ann Hyman and Laura Parker Castoro - Using Real-Life Experiences in Writing Fiction
  

12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

• Awards Luncheon
• Presentation for contest winners: best poems, short stories, plays and novels
  

1:45 to 3:00 p.m.

• Steve Brown - The 7 Worst Mistakes Writers Make with their Fictional PIs
• John Finotti, Marisa Carbone and Peter Bowerman - Freelancing
• Scott Morris
• S. V. Daté - Politics and Plot: From the Front Page to the Bound Page
• Paul Sinor - Turn Your Novel (Published or Unpublished) Into a Screenplay
  

3:15 to 4:30 p.m.

• Lenore Hart - How to Write a Novel in a Long Weekend... or Two
• Dan and Mary Hubley - Why It’s Not a Good Idea to Have Your Manuscript Edited by Friends, Neighbors and Relatives
• Ray McNiece - Meetings with Remarkable People: The Empathic Resonance of Encounters
• Cricket Pechstein and Jacky Sach - Working with Agents
  

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