LTUE 2008 schedule as of 13 February.
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Thursday Grid <> Friday Grid <> Saturday Grid (has rooms listed.)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008
9:00-9:50 am:
10:00-10:50 am:
Using history and folklore to enrich your world
Give your fictional world richness and depth through history and folklore. Come learn how to create believable histories and tales or superstitions that make sense within your world.
(John Brown, Eric Swedin, Julie Wright, Brandon Sanderson (M), Gail Carson Levine)
Papers: “Shake Hands with John Coffee” (Ken Rand, possibly read by Scott Parkin)
“Howl's Changing World: The Result of Preference or Genre?" (Laura Mathews)
11:00-11:50 am:
Main Address: Kevin Wasden
12:00-12:50 pm:
Projecting Possible Futures through Historical Analysis of Scientific Discoveries
How did we get where we are today? How will 2100 look different from now? What technologies are on the forefront of science? What will come in the near future?
(Laura Swift, Eric Swedin, Dan Willis, Virginia Baker, Scott Parkin (M))
Jewelry-making demonstration
(Michael and Judi Collings)
1:00-1:50 pm
Satire in SF&F.
How can you use satire in your story?
(Dan Willis, Howard Tayler, Eric James Stone, Robert J Defendi (M))
Jewelry-making demonstration
(Michael and Judi Collings)
Papers: “Spirited Away as a Gothic Text” (John Darowski)
“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe become Fact.” (Dallin Lewis)
2:00-2:50 pm
Orson Scott Card: 1001 Ideas in an Hour
How do you come up with ideas for a story? Come “brainstorm” with everyone else and see what sort of story ideas you can come up with!
3:00-3:50 pm
Orson Scott Card: From Idea to Story.
A continuation of “1001 Ideas in an Hour” where you take the ideas and develop them into a story.
Paper: “Time for your Inoculation: Vaccinating Humanity with Horror and Violence.” (Jacob Hodgen)
4:00-4:50 pm
Returning to the Well: Writing a Second (and Third) Book on the Same Theme or in the Same World.
How to write a sequel or series that is still interesting to the readers and the writers. What are some good and bad examples?
(Mette Ivie Harrison, Rebecca Shelley, Greg Park, Virginia Baker (M), Gail Carson Levine)
The astronomy behind space travel and planet location.
You can’t put a planet with a breathable atmosphere next to a red giant. Or a super nova. The science has to be close enough to suspend disbelief. What you need to know to place your planet.
(Howard Tayler, Laura Swift, Eric James Stone (M), Robert J Defendi)
Book signing in the BYU Bookstore (4:30-6:00)
Orson Scott Card
5:00-5:50 pm
Promoting your art (or webcomic) on the Internet
(Kevin Wasden, Howard Tayler (M), Brian Hailes, Sandra Taylor)
The 3 Things You Must Learn to Write Killer Stories: a hands-on workshop.
(John Brown)
Book signing in the BYU Bookstore (4:30-6:00):
Orson Scott Card
6:00-6:50 pm
Webcomic Q&A
(Kevin Wasden, Howard Tayler)
The 3 Things You Must Learn to Write Killer Stories: a hands-on workshop, cont.
(John Brown)
7:00-7:50 pm
Historical European Martial Arts: Does accuracy really matter
(Eli Combs)
Creating Worlds for RPGs
(Robert J Defendi)
I-Sci-Fi broadcast
Come see a live Internet talk show with some of our LTUE guests!
8:00-8:50 pm
I-Sci-Fi broadcast, cont.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2008
9:00-9:50 am
Dialogue: Letting your characters “speak” for themselves. Or, how you can have your main characters use their own speech patterns and not lose the reader’s interest.
(Dan Willis, James Dashner, Brandon Sanderson (M), Michael R. Collings, Krys Morgan))
"Ring around the Rosary: A Historiography of the Debate over Religious Elements in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings"
(Paper by Gregory Jackson and Landon Newby)
10:00-10:50 am
Resonance in Fairy Tales.
Why do fairy tales still fascinate us? Do the lessons in the tales still hold true today? What is it about fairy tales that still rings true?
(Mette Ivie Harrison, Rebecca Shelley, JoSelle Vanderhooft (M), Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, Gail Carson Levine)
Space travel for writers.
What every writer needs to know about space travel to make it sound believable.
(Helge Moulding (M), Julie Wright, Howard Tayler, Darwin Garrison, Lee Allred)
11:00-11:50 am
Main Address: Orson Scott Card
12:00-12:50 pm
Computers of the Future.
We look back at some of the old TV shows and movies and laugh at their concept of future computer technology. So, to keep the next generation from laughing at YOUR future tech, where are computers headed and what can you postulate for a plausible future?
(Eric Swedin (M), Howard Tayler, David Ferro, Eric James Stone, Robert J Defendi)
Reader’s Series: Gail Carson Levine (Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium)
Papers: “Taken at their Word” (Brook Brayman)
“Rise of the Disanimaton” (Joshua Johnson)
1:00-1:50 pm
Biblical Motifs in Fantasy
(Steve Walker, Orson Scott Card, Scott Parkin (M))
Paper: “Humangineering: Approaching the Human Animal as a Malleable Technology Platform in Fiction and Fact.” (Darwin A. Garrison)
2:00-2:50 pm
Working with Foam: Using craft foam for art and costuming.
Part demonstration, part presentation. The many ways crafta foam can be used.
(Sarah Seiter, Dave Doering (M), Kevin Wasden, Jessica Douglas)
The Realities of NY Publishing.
Every aspiring author has heard the horror stories. How many of them are true, and what can you do to work with or around them?
(Lynn Kurland, Brandon Sanderson, Rick Walton, Virginia Baker (M))
Writers’ workshop (2-6)
(Bob Defendi, Dan Willis)
Why Geology matters in worldbuilding.
(Josh Peltier, Aleta Clegg)
3:00-3:50 pm
Working with Foam: Using craft foam for art and costuming, cont.
(Sarah Seiter, Dave Doering (M), Kevin Wasden, Jessica Douglas)
Putting Romance in Your Novel.
So, you want to add a bit of spice to a tale of high adventure? How much is too much? How do you let your characters fall in love without making them sound like total saps?
(Lynn Kurland, Paul Genesse, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury (M), Virginia Baker, Brandon Sanderson)
Writers’ Workshop (2-6)
(Bob Defendi, Dan Willis)
Paper: “How to Define Science Fiction.” (Eric Swedin)
Book signing in the BYU Bookstore (3-4:30):
Gail Carson Levine, James Dashner, Rick Walton
4:00-4:50 pm
The Intersection of Fiction in the Past, Present, and Future of Computer-Human Interfaces. (David Ferro)
Turning Books into Comics: How several of Orson Scott Card’s novels went from book to comic book.
Orson Scott Card and Jake Black talk about how Ender’s Game, Wyrms and other books went from a book to a comic book.
(Jake Black, Orson Scott Card)
Writers Workshop (2-6)
(Bob Defendi, Dan Willis)
Worlds Without Number
(Jaron Hansen)
Book signing in the BYU Bookstore (3-4:30):
Gail Carson Levine, James Dashner, Rick Walton
5:00-5:50 pm
Colored Pencils in Art
(Jessica Douglas, Sarah Seiter)
Women of the Fantastic: Creating Strong, Believable Female Characters in a Medieval Fantasy Setting.
Medieval life was very hard on women. They had few rights and fewer options. How do you make a woman strong in a society ruled by men who treated women as property? How far is too far when using modern sensibilities in a fantasy setting?)
(Mette Ivie Harrison, Julie Wright (M), JoSelle Vanderhooft, Jessica Day George, Gail Carson Levine)
Paper: "Speaking Backward: Edward Bellamy and Nineteenth Century Utopian Fiction in a Rhetorical Context" (Ivan Wolfe)
Writers’ Workshop (2-6)
(Bob Defendi, Dan Willis)
Book signing in the Registration Room:
Jake Black, Kevin Wasden, Darwin Garrison, Michael R. Collings
6;00-6:50 pm
Publishing Fiction on the Internet.
Some of the newest, hottest speculative fiction is showing up on the World Wide Web. What are the best sites? Who runs them? Who's writing for them?
(Howard Tayler, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Darwin Garrison, Eric James Stone (M), Sandra Taylor)
Life, Death and Warfare: Iron Age Celts
(Charlotte Randle)
The 10 Mindsets of Winning Villains
(Brad Neufeld)
7:00-7:50 pm
Publishing with a Small Press.
What to expect, what you'll have to do to help market your book, what's good, what to be prepared for (like editors who likely have day jobs),
(JoSelle Vanderhooft, James Dashner (M), Robert J Defendi, Sandra Taylor, Karen Webb)
Fan Fiction on the Internet: where new writers hone their craft.
(Lyda Mae Dameron, Lee Allred (M), Amanda Peltier)
Creating a Fictional Language: The Basics
(Nathan Richardson)
8:00-8:50 pm
Creating a Fictional Language: The Basics, cont.
(Nathan Richardson)
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2008
9:00-9:25
(EC) What is Science Fiction and Fantasy and Why Might it be Helpful in Education?
(Aleta Clegg (M), Orson Scott Card, David Ferro, Jeff Savage, Mark Daymont)
9:30-9:55:
(EC) SF Media as a Way to Teach Reading, Research and Speculative Fiction in the Classroom.
(Aleta Clegg (M), David Ferro, Kate Reynolds, Mark Daymont)
9:00-9:50 am
Researching Unusual Subjects.
(Charlotte Randle, Lee Allred, Josh Peltier (M). Brandon Sanderson)
Cultural Taboos.
We know what our own cultural taboos are. Why do we have them? How did they come into being? How and why might different cultures have different taboos, and how can you use this knowledge to make your fictional worlds and characters more believable?
(Eric Swedin, Dan Willis (M), Virginia Baker, Jessica Day George, Karen Webb)
10:00-10:50 am
LDS Beliefs and SF&F. Why do LDS beliefs lead naturally into science fiction and fantasy?
(Laura Swift, Eric James Stone, Jessica Day George, Karen Webb, Brandon Sanderson (M), Jeff Savage)
Writing for Children.
Do you have to rhyme? How do you create a story in such a small space? What do you need to know to write for children? Where do you learn all this?
(Rick Walton, Rebecca Shelley, Dan Willis (M))
Paper: “Mythic Symbols of Batman” (John Darowsky)
(EC) Using Manga to Gets Kids Interested in Reading (Open Discussion moderated by Jessica Harmon & Mark Daymont)
11:00-11:50 am
Main Address: Gail Carson Levine
12:00-12:50 pm
Japanese Culture
(Charlotte Randle, Jessica Harmon)
Breaking into Book Illustration and Graphic Novels
(Kevin Wasden, Brian Hailes)
(EC) Using SF to Interest Kids in Science and Astronomy.
(Aleta Clegg, Laura Swift, Eric Swedin, Mark Daymont)
One-on-one Poetry Workshop
Sit down with Michael R. Collings and discuss one of your poems. Michael will help you not only understand what needs to be fixed, but WHY it needs to be fixed. If you can’t meet with him on Saturday, catch him any time during the symposium in the registration room.
1:00-1:50 pm
Adding a Little Reality to your Science Fiction - or How the Laws of Physics Get in the Way of an Unbelievably Good Story.
(Jae Heiner)
The Myth of Writers Block.
Sometimes the writer is his/her own worst enemy. Writers aren't born with blocks; they have to build them, one brick at a time. Come learn how to take the wall down.
(Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, Greg Park, Darwin Garrison, Scott Parkin (M))
Drawing and Forming Dinosaurs.
How can you draw a good dinosaur? How can you make one out of other media?
(Kevin Wasden, Howard Tayler, Brian Hailes, Cliff Green, Dave Doering (M))
(EC) Using SF&F to Teach Kids How to Write.
(Gail Carson Levine, Kate Reynolds, Greg Park, Mark Daymont IM))
Book signing in the BYU Bookstore:
Robert J Defendi, Jessica Day George, Mette Ivie Harrison, Jeff Savage, Rebecca Shelley, Julie Wright, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Paul Genesse
2:00-2:50 pm
Orson Scott Card Presentation:
SF&F as a Legitimate Literary Genre
3:00-3:50 pm
Writing for the YA Market.
The rules are changing. Boundaries are being stretched. What do you need to know to write for the YA market? How is it different from the adult fiction market?
(Mette Ivie Harrison, Rebecca Shelley (M), Julie Wright, James Dashner, Jessica Day George, Jeff Savage)
Soft Science. Making your science real and believable without knowing all the details.
(Helge Moulding, Laura Swift (M), Darwin Garrison, Robert J Defendi)
Keele’s Korner: A presentation on 3-D computer games and animation
(Steven Keele, Kevin Keele)
Book signing in the BYU Bookstore:
Howard Tayler, Eric James Stone, Dan Willis, Paul Genesse, Greg Park, Virginia E. Baker
4:00-4:50 pm
When building worlds, where do you start? And how far do you go?
What DO you need to know/explain in building a world for your story? Geography? Weather patterns? Flora and fauna?
(Laura Swift, Paul Genesse (M), Scott Parkin, Karen Webb)
Twisting Fairy Tales.
How can you tell the same tale told for centuries and make it fresh?
(Rick Walton, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury (M), Gail Carson Levine, Jessica Day George, Orson Scott Card)
Papers: “Of Saints and Starships: the History of Mormons and Science Fiction.” (Liz Busby)
“Harry Potter: A Hero for the New Millennium:
(Kathryn Olsen)
Martial Arts and Self-defense
(Matt Spackman)
5:00-5:50 pm
Creative collaboration (writers and artists).
Writing a great book, or painting a great picture, is just the beginning. Come learn how working with people with different creative talents can enrich your own work and lead to a much better final product.
(Kevin Wasden, Julie Wright, Rick Walton, Darwin Garrison, Robert J Defendi (M), Brian Hailes)
Presentation: Real Animals that are Stranger than Fiction: What nature has done with strange animals, and what you can, too.
(Brent Beardsley)
Why do we like to scare ourselves? The Appeal of Horror.
(Lee Allred, Jeff Savage, Eric Swedin (M))
Creating a Fictional Language: The Next Step
(Nathan Richardson)
