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<p>New page: == Kick-off == * Date: 4 October * Time: 1-3 pm (MLs will arrive by 12:30) * Where: 95th Street Library * Who is organizing: Katherine &amp; Tim === Agenda === ==== 12:30 - 1:05 -- Greetings ...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Kick-off ==<br /> * Date: 4 October<br /> * Time: 1-3 pm (MLs will arrive by 12:30)<br /> * Where: 95th Street Library<br /> * Who is organizing: Katherine &amp; Tim<br /> <br /> === Agenda ===<br /> ==== 12:30 - 1:05 -- Greetings ====<br /> Information sheets will be made available; there will be books to look at, posters to sign, name tags to fill out.<br /> Cookies and brownies will be available.<br /> <br /> ==== 1:05 - Icebreaker ====<br /> <br /> We&#039;re still considering what to do here. Options:<br /> * Fact or fiction<br /> * Share something your main char could do that you&#039;ve always wished you&#039;d done (small group exercise)<br /> <br /> ==== 1:20 - Plot ====<br /> <br /> A four step exercise in Plot development<br /> <br /> # Create a character.<br /> # Give this character a problem to deal with.<br /> # Imagine at least three different ways this particular character might possibly deal with this particular problem.<br /> # Pick one (or more) of these options, and imagine at least three different ways it <br /> ## wouldn&#039;t work, and <br /> ## would make the character&#039;s situation worse.<br /> <br /> Write your plot in one or two sentences on an index card. Then we&#039;ll pass it to the right, and add a plot twist. Please note, if the book isn&#039;t SF, don&#039;t add aliens. If it&#039;s not magic, don&#039;t add a spell. Please keep the twists something within the realm of the author&#039;s plot, but go wild within that realm. (If stuck, bring in a sense--smell--cookies burning, cookies baking, etc)<br /> <br /> ==== 1:45 - Nanowrimo information, answer questions, hand out hPDA&#039;s ====<br /> <br /> Next events (10/18 at Panera in Ogden (2-4) and 10/23 at Barnes &amp; Noble (7-9). Write-ins -- Saturdays at Warrenville City Hall 1-4, Sundays at 95th Street Library 1-4.<br /> <br /> ==== 2:00 - Writing exercise on Characters ====<br /> <br /> A character has choices to make. For readers to care about a story, the choices and the resolution must have consequences for the main character. Characters have goals.<br /> <br /> Describe a photograph of a character (main or minor) in your story achieving his or her goal. What would the photograph contain, be specific.<br /> <br /> Then pass it to the left. After reading about the character and his/her goal, add either a complication--something that stops the character from achieving his/her goal, or a quirk, something unusual that this character might have as a habit.<br /> <br /> ==== 2:30 - Using Resources (Information Bazaar) ====<br /> <br /> * Charts, Word Count, Updating Status to keep motivated<br /> * How to plan--different systems different people use<br /> ** Calendar planning (Katherine)<br /> ** Freemind mindmapping (Tim) <br /> * Regional songs, word wars, challenging another region.<br /> * Details on signing up and using the webpages (if someone wants.)</div>

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