
WLT On the Craft & Business of Writing
November 2, 2024 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM CDT
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Join the Writers’ League of Texas for a special WLT On the Craft & Business of Writing program, featuring two presentations and plenty of time to mix and mingle with fellow writers. This event is free and open to all.
The event will start at 10:00 AM with refreshments and a chance to meet other writers. The program will begin at 11:00 AM with Antonio Ruiz-Camacho presenting “Twisting Facts into Stories: Reality in Fiction and Nonfiction” and Meg Gardiner presenting “Killer Plots: Building Tension & Creating Conflict in Fiction,” followed by a moderated discussion with our two presenters about the path to publication. We’ll end with audience questions.
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About our presentations
“Killer Plots: Building Tension & Creating Conflict in Fiction” with Meg Gardiner
How do you create compelling characters and put them in memorable conflict? Meg Gardiner, author of seventeen acclaimed thrillers, will talk about heroes, villains, and the hook, and discuss techniques to ramp up the suspense and tension in your story.
“Twisting Facts into Stories: Reality in Fiction and Nonfiction” with Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
Writers are often asked, “Where do you get your ideas?” The answer is usually some version of this: “All around me.” We draw upon current events, personal memories and family anecdotes, and weird news from all sorts of media for our storytelling material. The best writers know how to turn those random, unexpected pieces of inspiration into fully developed essays, stories, and novels. Antonio Ruiz-Camacho will share examples from his own work and discuss strategies on how to observe reality with the eyes of a journalist and the imagination of a fiction writer in order to translate facts and events into riveting stories in any genre.
CONTINUING YOUR WRITING JOURNEY




Meg Gardiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels. Her thrillers have won the Edgar Award and been summer reading picks by The Today Show and O, the Oprah magazine. In August 2022, Heat 2, co-authored with Michael Mann, debuted at #1 on the New York Times best seller list. A former lawyer, two-time president of Mystery Writers of America, and three-time Jeopardy! champion, Gardiner lives in Austin.
Antonio Ruiz-Camacho's debut story collection Barefoot Dogs won the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, and was named a Best Book by Kirkus Reviews, San Francisco Chronicle, Texas Observer and PRI's The World. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Texas Monthly, The Millions, and elsewhere. A former Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University and a Dobie Paisano fellow in fiction by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, he earned his MFA from The New Writers Project at UT Austin. He was a National Magazine Award finalist in 2021.