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The money bomb project was successful. We saved the house. The people involved asked me to pass on their enormous gratitude and their commitment to pay the debt forward.
Due to popular demand, The Quotebook Of Solomon Short remains available.
THE QUOTEBOOK OF
SOLOMON SHORT
Whatever donation you make, whether it's $5 or $500, you will also receive a link to download a copy of The Quotebook of Solomon Short, the 2012 edition.
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This year again, I am scheduled to present my Writers' Workshop at the August Creation Con in Las Vegas.
The Creation Con people have always made sure that we have a good venue for the course and the sessions have always been well-received, so this year we intend to expand the course to three separate sessions:
Overview: Authorship means Taking Charge of Your Story
The workshops are presented as an interactive seminar, a candid give-and-take discussion about the heart and soul and nuts and bolts of creating a compelling experience for the reader. Whether it’s a short story, a novel, or a screenplay, the principles of effective storytelling are universal.
Your passion is the engine for your writing, but great stories come not only from great passion, but genuine commitment to getting from page one to page last. These workshops are about getting under the hood and working on the underlying mechanics of plot and character.
Session One: Story Structure
Plot is what your characters do.
What is a story? This session is a profound examination of the nature of plot and structure as the skeleton on which all else is built. What is the relationship between the protagonist and the problem? Understanding both the physical and emotional nature of the problem unravels the essential structure of a story. After you complete this session, you will see stories in a whole new way. Your own storytelling will have a new drive and purpose.
Session Two: Characterization
Characterization is who your characters are.
How do you bring a character to life? What animates the people in a story, making them real and believable? This session reveals character as a function of a person’s emotional landscape. How does a person react to events? And why? Understanding the expression of human emotions will transform the quality of your writing. After you complete this session, you will see people in a whole new way and the people in your stories will be real and alive.
Session Three: Style
Style is the voice of the story.
How do you create a mood? How do you evoke an emotion? How do you bring the story to life in the reader's imagination? We swim in the sea of language, never noticing how the currents move us. The master class examines the inherent power of language, how we weave our webs of words to create unique experiences in the reader's mind. After you complete this session, you will have a new relationshp with your work and the creation of every sentence will be an exciting adventure.
Tribbles and scripts and T-shirts and stuff can be found at TribbleToys.com. These tribbles purr. And when you buy one, Miles purrs.
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David Gerrold is the author of over 50 books, several hundred articles and columns, and over a dozen television episodes.
TV credits include episodes of Star Trek ("The Trouble With Tribbles" "The Cloud Minders"), Star Trek Animated ("More Tribbles, More Troubles" "Bem"), Babylon 5 ("Believers"), Twilight Zone ("A Day In Beaumont" "A Saucer Of Loneliness"), Land Of The Lost ("Cha-Ka" "The Sleestak God" "Hurricane" "Possession" "Circle"), Tales From The Darkside ("Levitation" "If The Shoes Fit"), Logan's Run ("Man Out Of Time"), and others.
Novels include When HARLIE Was One, The Man Who Folded Himself, The War Against The Chtorr septology, The Star Wolf trilogy, The Dingilliad young adult trilogy, the Trackers duology, and more.
The autobiographical tale of his son's adoption, The Martian Child won the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novelette of the Year and was the basis for the 2007 movie Martian Child, starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Joan Cusack.
