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Technofiction Writing Tips

by Roger Bourke White Jr.

Here is a collection of writing tips I have presented to the Salt Lake Community College screen writing classes and the LTUE science fiction writing seminars in Utah Valley.

When to Cooperate, When to Betray? -- which is likely? check the circumstances (Oct 18)
Notes from 2018 LTUE panels -- panel discussions at Life, The Universe, and Everything writers symposium (Feb 18)
Vampires in Modern Horror Fiction -- they are not the same as cannibals with some magic added (Feb 17)
Notes from 2017 LTUE panels -- panel discussions at Life, The Universe, and Everything writers symposium (Feb 17)
Presentation for Local Authors and You November 2016 -- Writing about the Future (Nov 16)
Presentation to SLCC Business Leadership Forum -- mixing tigh tech business advice and Visions of 2050 (Mar 16)
Notes from 2015 LTUE panels -- panel discussions at Life, The Universe, and Everything writers symposium (Feb 15)
The Importance of Internal Consistency in Story Telling -- presented to SLCC scriptwriting class (Nov 14)
The Mood Start -- An alternative way of starting a story, presented to SLCC scriptwriting class (Oct 14)
Showing Abstraction versus Showing Reality -- This topic started as a personal mystery: Why are the monsters in CGI movies so boring to watch? (Jul 14)
Adding Science to Storytelling -- presentation at WIT Hour of Code at Adobe Systems (May 14)
Notes from 2014 LTUE panels -- panel discussions at Life, The Universe, and Everything writers symposium (Feb 14)
Short Stories and Short Films -- short stories are easy to adapt, and short films are wonderful for show-casing new stuff (Mar 13)
Notes from 2013 LTUE panels -- panel discussions at Life, The Universe, and Everything writers symposium (Feb 13)
Putting Technology Ramifications into Your World Building -- presented at LTUE 2012 (Feb 12)
Thoughts Inspired by LTUE and Conduit 2011 -- writing about: first contact, space travel without warp drive, military SF, believeable economies, new kinds of monsters and building good bad guys (Mar 11, Jun 11)

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