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Story Elements: Description & Dialogue
Writer's Workshop
Learn how to provide exposition while crafting believable dialogue for your story.
About the presenter: Jeanette Watts is the author of Jane Austen Lied to Me, My Dearest Miss Fairfax, Wealth and Privilege, and Brains and Beauty. She has an honorable mention in the Rainbow Awards for her adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion. Jeanette also won the 2023 Firebird Awards in both Chick Lit and Romance for her latest novel, My Dearest Miss Fairfax. Besides writing historical fiction, satires, and LGBTQ+ romance, she has also written television commercials, one-act melodramas, Old West saloon shows, dance textbooks, and marketing newspapers. She has also written unproduced television and movie scripts and unpublished erotica. You could say she just likes words.
Registration is encouraged.
- Sep 6, Where to Begin, 7 pm
- Sep 20, Story Elements: Description & Dialogue, 7 pm
- Oct 4, Story Elements: Plot & Prose, 7 pm
- Oct 18, Story Elements: Cliffhangers & Climax, 7 pm
- Nov 1, Finishing Your Story, 7 pm
- Nov 29, Short Story Awards Ceremony & Reading, 7 pm
- Dec 6, Open Mic Night, 7 pm
Interested in our Short Story Contest? Entries due Friday, November 10, 2023. Visit champaign.org/short-story for additional details.
Registration is closed.
Main Library, Robeson Pavilion Room A & B
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