January Write Brain: Tips, Techniques, & Tribulations of Short Story Writing

Evening will begin with Kathie Scrimgeour, head of the upcoming PPW Anthology, speaking about the Anthology submission call. Be sure to get there at the beginning for your chance to learn more!

Then: Got an idea for a story? Is it a short story, a novella, or a novel? How can you tell? What’s the point of short stories anyway? Maybe you want to write short fiction but aren’t sure where to start. Maybe everything you try turns out too long or too short. How do you hit that perfect length?

Join a professional writer with more than thirty published short stories in a crash course on writing the short stuff. Suitable for all genres of short fiction, and address a few specifics by genre. Bring your questions and imagination.

Speaker is freelance writer, novelist, editor, Travis Heermann is the author of eight novels, including The Hammer Falls, Death Wind, and The Ronin Trilogy, plus short fiction in Apex Magazine, Cemetery Dance, and others. His freelance work includes contributions to the Firefly Roleplaying Game, Battletech, Legend of Five Rings, and EVE Online.