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Item 1: Thu 8/24 1:00 PM, 60-90 minutes.
Title: WHAT IS EVIL?
Precis: Novels seem to always pits good versus evil, the
hero/heroine (who must do battle, sacrifice endlessly,
travel to the ends of the earth to save the world) and the
evil protagonist. Sounds simple. But how do you define what
is truly evil? And are your characters black and white or
many shades of gray? How bad is the bad guy? Is evil marked
by character, action, the enormity of destruction, the
totality of deceit, or is it possible that evil is in the
perception?
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Item 2: Thu 8/24 4:00 PM, 60-90 minutes.
Title: THE WORST IDEAS IN FANTASY OR SCIENCE FICTION
Precis: We're always hearing the science fiction is a literature of
ideas. And that this or that was a great idea. What just
didn't work? What seemed like a good idea at the time
but...
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Item 3: Thu 8/24 5:30 PM, 60-90 minutes.
Title: GOOD ENDINGS
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Precis: Writing is hard. There's lots of work, lots of thought that
goes into every sentence. But no matter how good your story
is, how compelling your characters are, if your ending
falls flat, so does everything else. How do you make your
ending work?
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Item 4: Fri 8/25 11:00 AM, 60 minutes.
Title: AUTOGRAPHING: BRANDON SANDERSON
Participants: Brandon Sanderson
Precis:
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Item 5: Sat 8/26 1:00 PM, 60-90 minutes.
Title: WRITING NON-HUMAN CHARACTERS
Precis: We're all people so we really can't think like an alien or
a demon or an anthropomorphic dog. So what do we do to make
non-human characters real without making them just seem
weird? How do we bring them to life?
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Item 6: Sat 8/26 4:00 PM, 60-90 minutes.
Title: HARD FANTASY
Precis: Is there such a thing as "hard" fantasy, like "hard"
science fiction? Is it just a matter of research or better
world building? What does it take to make a fantasy
"hardcore"? Who's writing hard fantasy, what is it, and how
does it work?
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Item 7: Sun 8/27 11:30 AM, 60-90 minutes.
Title: IN DEFENSE OF ESCAPIST LITERATURE
Precis: Science fiction has had a moniker of being junk food for
the mind; escapist fare only. Is that true? Not all of it
is literature but surely some of it must be? Mustn't it?
What literary trends can be found? What will withstand the
test of time? And does it matter?