I had the chance to attend the Utah Writers League conference this year because of the generously of a fellow writer, who couldn’t go. Here are my notes.

– Fear when the lights go out, the book/movie gets scary
– Attractions when you see a beautiful person
– When you see someone. Sometimes it might be someone less fortunate
– Take the common impulse to a vividly surreal story with unexpected conclusions.
– Use one of the seven deadline sins as a standing point for a story. Last, gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy ride, vanity
– Diction is when you put sounds affects into your writing.
– You must ask yourself each sentence:
– Q: What is it saying, what is it doing?
– Q: Is there any way to make it say or do not more intense or with more bravura?
– There is a way to get the sentence to say?
– Dramatize suggestions, not telling
– Write a story fueled by a relationship in which a parent wants something very badly for their child?
– Write a piece where one character makes another character reconsider her image of herself?
– Write a piece in which you put a new employee in a challenging career filed with a challenging choice to be made
– Create a story that reveals a relationship of nature, then using it to examine a human relationship.

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