Event: LSFWriters Create Something Magical Conference – Workshop Notes Part 1

Liberty States Fiction Writers Create Something Magical Conference
March 17, 2012

Confession: I’m a compulsive note-taker. I was one of those students who took copious amounts of notes in class and then typed them all up outline-style before a test. But wait, I do have good reasons for this behavior: I remember what I read and write, not what I hear. I simply won’t remember anything from class lectures. But if I write it twice and then read it countless times in the hour leading up to the test? Consider it aced.

Anyone who knows me (or follows me on FB) can tell you that I like taking classes and learning about things. (I just don’t like homework.) So it should come as no surprise that I took a ton of notes at the Create Something Magical Conference. I’m not going to type up everything, but learned so much useful information that I have to share my favorite bits from the workshops and panels I attended.

As I mentioned in yesterday’s review of the event, I went to 4 workshops and 2 panels. This post includes notes from the first two, Pitch Perfect with Pattie Giordani and Tina Gallagher and Novel Structure with Maria V. Snyder.