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Crafting the First Line (Sponsored by Plottr)
June 4, 2021 8:00 am to 9:00 am
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Authors and editors discuss what makes a first line successful at a craft level, breaking down their favorites and sharing their own strategies.
Living Overseas and Publishing in the US and CA
May 22, 2022 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
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When many popular traditional publishers have New York or otherwise North American roots, “breaking in” from elsewhere in the world can be difficult. In this panel, writers living beyond the US and Canada discuss their publishing experiences.
What Authors Can Learn from Video Games
June 6, 2024 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
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Video games are the most lucrative entertainment industry sector, with 65% of the US population playing regularly. What can SFF authors writing in non-game mediums — novelists, writers of short stories, novellas and novelettes, etc. — learn from gaming? What do video games teach us about world-building? How is video game storytelling the ultimate example of “show, don’t tell,” and what techniques can writers extract from it to use in a non-visual medium? How do video games create compelling characters with a spare minimum of dialogue/description, and how can we as authors learn to do the same? While our readers may not be able to control our stories as directly as players in a game, what can we learn from gaming to create the same feeling of first-person urgency through deep POV? What video game titles in particular do panelists feel have the most to teach us as SFF authors?