Build Your Fictional World
Slide deck from Author Seedbed Workshop, Resources, and Upcoming Events
It's my pleasure to share the slide deck of Build Your Fictional World. If you couldn't attend or just want to review it, you can click the links at any time.
Building Your Fictional World starts with basic character-building principles and strategies in fiction writing. The presentation demonstrated how to use Milanote, a free online tool that helps writers organize their projects digitally.
Resources
Charcter characteristics/flaws: Enneagram.
Learn Your Enneagram, free test
A place to put it all together: Milanote
Milanote’s How-to Build Your Character Step-by-Step tutorial
Upcoming Opportunities
An Evening of Music and Poetry with Debra Marquart
Monday, Oct. 28 6-7 p.m. Waterloo Public Library
Join past Iowa Poet Laureate and singer-songwriter Debra Marquart for an evening of music and poetry at the WPL! Debra is the author of six books, including 2021's "The Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays Between Exile & Belonging"
RED HERRING THEATRE PRESENTS THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT
Tuesday, October 29 at 6:30 p.m.
Written by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell; Directed by Karen Mitchell; Sponsored by Jones Law Firm, Mike and Rita Waggoner, and Friends of the Hearst. Synopsis: The Lifespan of a Fact is based on the true story of a renowned essayist and a magazine’s eager fact checker locked in a battle of wills as they navigate the lines of fact and truth. The play is based on the book of the same name by essayist John D’Agata and his real-life fact-checker, Jim Fingal.
HYBRID! FINAL THURSDAY READING SERIES
Open mic starts at 7:00 p.m. & featured author talk begins at 7:30 p.m.
Visit FTRS website for links to attend virtually. MAE LATTA HALL Join us for a community open mic followed by a discussion with featured author, Brook Wonders
A Night of Monsters is presented for this special Halloween event. UNI’s Brooke Wonders, alongside students in her horror literature course, will be reading new stories of terror and dread. Dr. Wonders’s scary stories have appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Rupture, and The Dark, among others. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa and editor of literary horror magazine Grimoire.
National Novel Writing Month (NanoWriMo)
Hawkins Memorial Library, La Porte City, is leading a NanoWriMo Write-in from 1-3 PM on Saturday, November 2nd, 2024.
National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide begin to write, determined to end the month with a first draft. They enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents. They leave novelists.
Stay tuned for news about the 2025 Author Seedbed Season. Also, send me your ideas for lectures you’d like to see included.
xo
Felicia