Join us Saturday, October 15, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard Rd., Pleasanton, for a special workshop on Ways to Improve Your Storytelling. Note: Our regular meeting time will be extended to 4:30 for this special presentation.
Scott Evans will present a hands-on workshop that will cover:
- Intensifying plot points to add conflict and drama to your stories
- Growing your plot from character flaws and traits by using “organic” unity
- Improving dialogue in order to advance the plot and reveal character
Scott Evans holds a Masters in English from the University of California, Davis and teaches at the University of the Pacific in Central California, including fiction writing and a course titled “Crime, Punishment and Justice” that introduces first-year students to criminology from various perspectives. In the summer, he also teaches legal writing for the King Hall Law School Outreach Program at the University of California, Davis. Before returning to California, he taught at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, which is one of the settings in his “literary” murder mysteries (Tragic Flaws, First Folio and Sylvia’s Secrets), which follow the misadventures of a resourceful, but somewhat naïve college instructor named Joseph Lawrence Conrad.
Scott serves as Editor and Publisher of the Blue Moon Literary & Art Review and has published numerous stories and poems as well as newspaper articles. He was the recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Lectureship in Southern Literature in Louisiana in 1985.
Be prepared to try out the techniques presented during the workshop and become proficient with them when you write your next story or revise stories you’ve already written.