The Three Pillars of Story: Character, Plot, & Emotion with Speaker Dr. Diana Stout
October 4, 2024
|| Virtual Event Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024 ||
|| Speakers: Dr. Diana Stout ||
|| Start time: 1:00 pm PDT ||
Writers:
~ Do you struggle with the sagging middle?
~ Do you get so stuck that you’re not sure where to go in the story?
~ Have you ever been told your characters are flat, one-dimensional, or unlikable?
~ Have you ever become bored with your story while writing it?
~ Have you ever started writing an idea, then shelved it because you didn’t know how to finish it?
Are you still trying to determine what your writing process is? See more details below.
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More details:
Her expertise and passion for writing will help you better understand how these three pillars of storytelling—plot, character, and emotion—can improve your story regardless of your process.
Diana is able to transform not only how writers look at their stories and help them create a better process that produces the results they are looking for.
Dr. Diana Stout is an award-winning writer in multiple genres, having published magazine articles, short stories, poetry, serving both as a newspaper and magazine columnist, optioned a screenplay, and published three romance scripts traditionally, when asked to teach writing at a nearby community college and online through writing communities.
Speaking at various conferences, she realized her passion for helping other writers, so late in life she returned to college to get the needed degrees to teach college writing classes. Six and half years later, having obtained her AA, BA, and MFA all in creative writing, with the MFA in playwrighting—it was the closest she could come to screenwriting—and winning awards in the process, she began her professional career as an English professor of writing.
Two years later, she returned to school, received her Ph.D. in English with Education Emphasis, becoming an expert in the teaching and learning of writing. Her dissertation on plagiarism, Teaching Students About Plagiarism: What It Looks Like and How It Is Measured has been downloaded (free) over 3,000 times in 124 countries by governments, military, educational institutions, commercial organizations, and libraries.
She has served as a reviewer for academic journals, textbook publishers, and as a contest judge for multiple writing organizations: both children and adult, in fiction and nonfiction, and Hollywood screenwriting organizations, including Scriptwriters Network.
Diana admits, that unlike an author who writes in one genre, her process of writing in various genres and media has made her a stronger writer. Before her return to school, she was working with six different producers who loved her writing voice and wanted to see everything and anything she was writing. Unfortunately, a life-changing event turned her creative writing to academic writing for nearly 15 years.
Today, she writes fulltime as an indie publisher through her company, Sharpened Pencils Productions, and has returned to screenwriting.
She’s published romance novels, two of her screenplays, a cookbook, a literary short story, a fantasy based on a Beowulf character, and her how-to resource guides that has now become her Finding Your Fire series.
CPE: Character, Plot, & Emotion and its companion workbook became the second and third books in the series. The next book is a grammar and punctuation sourcebook writer friends have been clamoring for.
Currently, she’s finishing a psychological paranormal thriller—it’s giving her goosebumps—while writing the scripts and resource guides.
She teaches online through WriterUniv a couple times a year, and posts regularly on the Writer’s Digest award winning Writers in the Storm blog. She owns three blogs: Behind the Scenes that focuses on life as a writer; Into the Core: One Woman’s Mystic Journey where she shares her psychic, intuitive, and paranormal experiences; and Featured Guests with Diana Stout that features interviews of those involved with writers and writing.
To learn more about Dr. Stout, visit her website where you can sign up for her newsletter and follow her blogs and social media.
CPE: Character, Plot, & Emotion on Amazon & the CPE Workbook
Sharpened Pencils Productions website
Meeting Timeframe: 1:00 pm PDT to approximately 3:00 pm PDT
Any questions, email us at [email protected]
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