Workshop: Book in a Day with Debra Dixon and Pennwriters

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BOOK IN A DAY

Instructor: Debra Dixon
Debra Dixon

Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010

Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel - Pittsburgh Airport / 1160 Thorn Run Road, Coraopolis, PA

Cost: $125 for Pennwriters members; $150 for nonmembers
(Lunch is included in the workshop fee)

Workshop Details:Pennwriters Area 3 will host a “Book in a Day” interactive workshop with bestselling author Debra Dixon. This intensive full-day seminar will draw from Dixon’s popular how-to book GMC: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict, the Building Blocks of Good Fiction, which is in its sixth printing, and The Hero’s Journey. She will show you how to put together the important elements of a book and its plot skeleton.

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