The five master classes scheduled for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Conference are featured on this blog August 7, August 8, August 12, August 20, and August 29.
Scene Craft
Instructor: Sharon Mignerey
Friday, September 20, 8:00-11:50 Big Thompson
Scenes are a basic building block of storytelling, but what makes for effective scenes? Robert McKee, author of Story, says “A scene is a story in miniature.” Writers know scenes propel the plot forward, or reveal character, or create suspense, or preferably all three. Just as one size rarely fits all, a one-scene technique rarely fits all.
Stories are made up of some combination of the opening scene, suspense-building scenes, dramatic scenes, action scenes, dialogue scenes, climactic scenes, epiphany scenes, flashback scenes, and the final-resolution scene. Each of these has a different function in a story. The more a writer understands about scene craft, the more control he or she has over the story
Sharon Mignerey is both traditionally and independently published. She’s a contributor to Many Genres, One Craft, and her articles have been published by The Writer magazine. She received an MFA from Seton Hill University in Writing Popular Fiction. Sharon’s books have won several awards, including The Golden Heart, the National Readers Choice Award, and the CRW Keeper Award. She’s an active member of several groups, including RWA and RMFW.
The registration link for the Colorado Gold Conference scheduled for September 20-22, 2013, is http://www.rmfw.org/conference/. The deadline to register for Master Classes is September 15th. The cost of each workshop is $50 add-on to the regular conference fee. More information on the conference schedule, hotel accommodations, and presenters is available in the brochure at: http://www.rmfw.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2013-Colorado-Gold-Brochure-07.17.13.pdf. If you have additional questions, please contact Susan Brooks, Conference Chair, conference@rmfw.org