Date: November 9, 2008
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook

SCBWI Event: New Year, New Tactics

New Year, New Tactics
Sat, Jan 24th, 9:30a-11:45a & 1:00p-3:30p
Mardel Book Store, 119th & Blue Valley Parkway

The Scenario – intro to PB, MG, YA, ss – Audience awareness – same scenario, different genres – 1 hour
Show Me! – showing versus telling – 1 hour
Eavesdrop – dialogue assignment, write down exactly what you overhear – 5 minutes
Report In – participants share what they observed and wrote down – can we tell who was talking by the dialogue – what dialogue was clearest, etc. – rewriting an overheard scene – 1 hour 15 minutes
Marketing 101 – ms format, query letters, synopsis, etc. – 1 hour

For more information, visit www.kansas-scbwi.org

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