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2006 Presenters (Authors, Agents, Editors & Producers)

Jenny Crusie, Author
Jenny Crusie was researching her dissertation on the differences in the way men and women tell stories when she got sidetracked into writing romance novels. Her first book was published in 1993 and her sixteenth, Don't Look Down, written in collaboration with Bob Mayer was published in April of 2006, all of which she considers a minor miracle. She is currently working on her next solo book and her second collaboration with Bob (tentatively titled Agnes and the Hitman). For more information on Jenny, see www.jennycrusie.com.

Workshop(s)

Making it Great, Making it Better—Revising Your Scene (Part 1) (workshop) Friday, October 20, 2006 (10:30 AM to 12:00 PM) When your first draft is done, the work is just beginning. This two-part lecture on revising scenes first discusses the central question and core conflict, then branches out into discussions of character, plot, and theme.
Making it Great, Making it Better—Revising Your Scene (Part 2) (workshop) Friday, October 20, 2006 (1:30 PM to 3:00 PM) When your first draft is done, the work is just beginning. This two-part lecture on revising scenes first discusses the central question and core conflict, then branches out into discussions of character, plot, and theme.
Advanced: Story Collage—Brainstorming with Scissors and Glue (workshop) Saturday, October 21, 2006 (1:30 PM to 3:00 PM) The best stories often come from juxtaposing people and events and watching the relationships that develop between them. Collage—gluing together different pictures, fabrics, found objects, words, and more in order to make a unified whole—is a way of exploring what the story in your head wants to be. This one hour lecture explains the process and shows examples of collages that were the inspiration and touchstones for several books by different authors.
YEX and Violence: How To Write Action Without Losing Your Story (Part 1) (workshop) Sunday, October 22, 2006 (9:30 AM to 10:45 AM) Too often writers look at sex scenes and fight scenes as ends in themselves instead of part of the story-telling process, developing plot and character arcs. In this two-hour lecture, Jenny Crusie and Bob Mayer talk not only about how to write sex and violence, but also about how to make those kinds of action meaningful to your stories.
YEX and Violence: How To Write Action Without Losing Your Story (Part 2) (workshop) Sunday, October 22, 2006 (11:00 AM to 12:15 PM) Too often writers look at sex scenes and fight scenes as ends in themselves instead of part of the story-telling process, developing plot and character arcs. In this two-hour lecture, Jenny Crusie and Bob Mayer talk not only about how to write sex and violence, but also about how to make those kinds of action meaningful to your stories.