Meeting Schedule 

Topic: Stupendous Story Structure - Part 2
Time: May 2, 2024 06:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Jeff Giles is the Executive Hollywood Editor for Vanity Fair. Jeff has been writing-editing his entire professional career as a YA Novelist and contract writer for The New York Times and editor at Entertainment Weekly.

He will join our Guest Speaker Series at 6 pm and discuss with us everything Academy Awards and what it’s like to manage a very active print magazine. Your questions are welcome.

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Time change: Beginning Dec 7, 2023 all meetings will start at 6 pm through the rest of the Winter months. 

You are invited to our Open Readings at 6 pm at A-1 Vacuum in downtown Kalispell - please park in the rear & use the back door.

Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd; otherwise, 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1" margins.

If you have a few pages, you'd like input on, make about 8-10 copies to pass out, and bring them along. Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd, otherwise 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1" margins. If you're shy about reading aloud your own prose, someone else would be glad to read for you.
 

If you don't have anything to present, please come and share your enthusiasm & experience with the readers. We were all newbies at one time...

Flathead Story Concerts are back in 2024 with new stories told live! Join us at Sacred Waters Brewing in Kalispell to hear 6 Flathead locals share true personal essays, short fiction and poems with story fans and friends. Most of our May 21st Tellers are AofF members.

May Story Theme is "All in the Family." FSC story events are themed and curated (like The Moth Radio Hour).

This free community event is hosted by story coaches Glenn & Barbara Schiffman plus Sacred Waters Brewing. Ongoing FSC sponsors also include Authors of the Flathead and The Bookshelf in Kalispell.

When: Tuesday May 21st - stories from 6:00-7:30pm (doors open at 5:30, open seating)
Where: Sacred Waters Brewing, 3250 U.S.Hwy 2 East, Kalispell - in The Wild Side Room >> No reservations needed but seating is limited.

Next 2024 Flathead Story Concert is Tuesday 9/17 (also at Sacred Waters Brewing). If you have a story to submit for review for 9/17 or want to learn how to craft a tellable story, email Barbara Schiffman at story23fvcc@gmail.com for guidelines.

Get more info or "follow" Flathead Story Concerts at: https://FlatheadStoryConcerts.wootick.com

Topic: The Frankenstein Method for Revising Your Stories
Time: Jun 6, 2024 06:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Topic: Scenes that work!

You only need about 10 basic skills in order to write a pretty good novel. What’s #1 on that list of skills? Writing a solid scene that moves your reader emotively. If you can write one powerful scene, you can write 100, and that’s a novel. Randy Ingermanson will teach us how to decide which kind of scene is appropriate. He will show us how to diagnose a broken scene. Then, demonstrate how to fix a scene, or tell when it isn’t fixable. 

Bio: Randy Ingermanson is the inventor of the wildly popular Snowflake Method of designing a novel. He’s the author of three best-selling books on how to write fiction and the author of eight novels. In a previous life, Randy earned a PhD in theoretical physics from UC Berkeley, and he is currently Director of Software Engineering for a biotech company in San Diego. He used to be the unpaid manservant for several surly and demanding cats, but they have now moved on to a higher plane of existence, while he doggedly remains on this one. He blogs whenever the spirit moves him at www.advancedfictionwriting.com.

Here’s a link to the book most closely related to this lecture: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1937031187/

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