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Writer’s Workshop Series
Champaign Public Library
200 West Green Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 403-2000
Category
Hours
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Learn the basics of how to plan out and start writing a your story.
About the presenter: Jeanette Watts is the author of Jane Austen Lied to Me, My Dearest Miss Fairfax, Wealth and Privilege, and Brains and Beauty. She has an honorable mention in the Rainbow Awards for her adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion. Jeanette also won the 2023 Firebird Awards in both Chick Lit and Romance for her latest novel, My Dearest Miss Fairfax. Besides writing historical fiction, satires, and LGBTQ+ romance, she has also written television commercials, one-act melodramas, Old West saloon shows, dance textbooks, and marketing newspapers. She has also written unproduced television and movie scripts and unpublished erotica. You could say she just like words.
Registration is encouraged.
Writer's Workshop Series:
- Sep 2, How to Begin a Short Story, 7 pm
- Sep 16, Story Elements: Point of View, 7 pm
- Oct 7, Story Elements: Setting, 7 pm
- Oct 21, Story Elements: Conflict, 7 pm
- Nov 4, Finishing Your Story, 7 pm
- Nov 18, Short Story Awards Ceremony & Reading, 7 pm
- Dec 2, Writing Creative Nonfiction, 7 pm
- Dec 16, Crafting Chemistry: How to Write a Romance, 7 pm