The Hero’s Journey One way of telling a story. Stage 1 – The Ordinary World Stage 2 – Call to adventure What is the call to adventure? What new force …
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Ross Grayson Bell – Writing for a Screenplay versus a Novel (pt 2)
7 ways to engage an audience 1. Premise Your point of view and how to live it. Eg romance writers have a perspective on love Eg in Fight Club, the …
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Friday workshop: Ross Grayson Bell – Writing for a Screenplay versus a Novel (pt 1)
Ross Grayson Bell is a screenwriter, producer and story consultant with over twenty-five years of international experience in story development and film production. Having started as a creative executive for …
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RWA conference 2018
So I’m finally getting around to writing up my notes from this. I had a lot going on around the time of the conference so apologies for the delay. I …
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“Basically Quite Weird”: The Queer Medievalist Virtual Romance of Alexis Hall’s Looking for Group
Kristin Noone (Irvine Valley College) Session 12.4: Love in Other Worlds Abstract: In a recent blog post, award-winning romance author Alexis Hall comments that “something we’re grappling with as twenty-first …
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“Outlander’s Tactile Caress: a Multisensory Romance”
Athena Bellas (University of Melbourne) Session 12.3: Love in Other Worlds Abstract: Much of the existing literature on television series Outlander (STARZ 2014– ) emphasises its prioritisation of a female …
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Georgette Heyer’s Unruly Eighteenth Century
Dr Stephanie Russo (Macquarie University, Australia) Session 5.1: History and Romance Abstract: Georgette Heyer’s fame, both in her own time and in ours, is inextricably connected to her representation of …
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Think Globally, Love Locally? – Popular Romance Studies comes to Sydney
Recently I was fortunate to attend some sessions the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (aka IASPR) Conference with the theme ‘Think Globally, Love Locally?’ held in Sydney. …
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Breakout 5: Ally Blake – How to hook your reader
How critical is your first page, really? If it doesn’t grab the reader / editor / agent on the first page, you are done. Step 1: Opening line Memorable Poetic …
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Breakout 4: World building panel
Mel Scott (moderator), Keri Arthur, Denise Rossetti, Alison Goodman, C. S. Pacat CS Pacal Writes fantasy with gay princes Keri Arthur Dark urban fantasy Alison Goodman Fantasy, sci fi, crime …