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The 2019 Writers Conference will be held Thursday, November 14 through Sunday, November 17.
Our conference will focus on craft, skill-development, and community building. Get your manuscript polished and submission-ready with how-to sessions, editing and critique, and community building. Thursday - Saturday is for adult and teen writers. Sunday is just for the kids.

All sessions are First Come, First Served. Building a schedule does NOT guarantee a spot and is for informational purposes only.
Friday, November 15 • 11:00am - 11:50am
The Long Haul (seats 150)

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Anyone can start a novel; that’s when it’s fun, exciting, all possibility and no problems. For about fifty pages the thing practically writes itself—and then something happens. Narrative difficulties emerge and accumulate. Doubt creeps in. You falter, or quit altogether. This is not merely a common experience; it’s universal. Currie will share strategies for overcoming this challenge and powering through to the end.  This lecture is an introduction to the topic; an alternate two-day workshop will be offered for those with works in progress--see schedule for more details.

All sessions are First Come, First Served. Building a schedule does NOT guarantee a spot and is for informational purposes only. 
Speakers
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Ron Currie, Jr.

Author
Ron Currie is the author of the three novels, The One-Eyed Man, Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles, and Everything Matters! along with the short story collection, God is Dead, winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. In 2009, he received the Addison M. Metcalf Award... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am
Carmack
  craft talk, fiction, non-fiction, poetry

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