Instructor: Les Edgerton
Date: Saturday, April 30
Time: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Location: IWC
Cost: $114 Nonmembers, $78 members, $66 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members
Bring a sack lunch

Watching movies can make you a better fiction writer.
That’s the entire premise of this workshop. Les Edgerton, currently writing his third writer’s how-to on this very title, will offer perhaps the most unique workshop you’ve ever attended! During the session, we will take an in-depth look at the movie “Thelma & Louise” and focus on the practical aspects of fiction writing as informed by films, covering techniques in characterization, inciting incident, dialogue, plot, story structure, transitions, mood and tone, setting, mise en scene, creating riveting scenes, and other elements.

As a decided bonus, Bijou will also provide inside information on such topics as:

Why avoiding “popcorn moments” are important in creating a bestseller and how to avoid them
Why “watercooler moments” are important in creating a bestseller and how to create them
How to pitch your novel effectively to agents, using such successful Hollywood techniques as the “elevator pitch” and other inside stratagems
How to write a novel in 90 days using the method screenwriters utilize, using index cards