Fiction:
Timons Esaias will try
to inoculate you against the nods, smiles, POV expressions, clenched jaws,
anachronisms, vanilla verb-pairs and other "bobble-headisms" that can
choke your prose to death and poison your chances for a sale. He'll also
address the Moon Muddle and raise the Pack Animal Question. His talk will be
the bane of your bad habits and a guide for your good ones and will include
"Additional Things Tim Is Tired Of." The workshop will involve
several exercises to sharpen your craft. We'll do some writing, we'll heighten
tension, we'll get POV into description, and we'll discuss issues in the
manuscript you're working on, if you care to bring it in. The workshop is
intended to be useful for all levels of proficiency.
Timons
Esaias is a satirist,
poet, essayist, and writer of short fiction, living in Pittsburgh. His works
have appeared in 15 languages, with a sixteenth (Galician) in the works. He has
been a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award, and he won the 2005
Asimov's Readers Award. His story "Norbert and the System" has
appeared in a textbook and in college curricula. Recent genre appearances
include Asimov's, Analog, and Future Games. Literary
publications include 5AM, Connecticut Review, and Barbaric
Yawp. He teaches the writing of novels in Seton Hill University's Writing
Popular Fiction MFA Program, and his students are publishing more books than he
can afford to buy. He advises for SHU's art & literary journal, Eye
Contact. His current project is a book on Warfare for Writers.
