Writers' Corner
Whether you're a seasoned author or just starting out, these quick and insightful videos offer practical advice to help you improve your writing skills, spark creativity, and overcome common challenges. Watch, learn, and take your writing to the next level!
Watch clips from past Writers Corner events and videos featuring tips from bestselling authors.
Upcoming Events
Discussion of the Hugo Finalists
presented by The Orlando Area Science Fiction Society
Online (Virtual Room - EPD)
Event Categories: Authors, Books, Writing
The Hugo Awards are given for excellence in the science fiction and fantasy field. Join the Orlando Area Science Fiction Society (OASFiS) for a discussion of the Hugo finalists in several categories.
Online (Virtual Room - EPD)
Event Categories: Authors, Books, Writing
Join your fellow writers for critique, discussion, and camaraderie. Writers of all genres and experience are welcome. Please attend one meeting before submitting a piece for critique.
Online (Virtual Room - EPD)
Event Categories: Authors, Books, Writing
Author and editor Kristen Stieffel will discuss how to provide a dramatic, but honest story by learning how to plug the true events of your story into a dramatic arc.
Online (Virtual Room - EPD)
Event Categories: Authors, Books, Writing
Join a panel of seasoned genre authors to discuss their experiences publishing with small traditional presses.
Online (Virtual Room - EPD)
Event Categories: Authors, Books, Writing
Today’s audiences are fickle. If they aren’t engaged in the opening moments of a story, they lose interest. Filmmaker Jennie Jarvis will share tips and tricks on how to hook those fickle crowds.
Winter Garden Branch (Winter Garden - Program Area)
Event Categories: Authors, Books, Writing
Attend an hour-long workshop with local writers as we brainstorm ideas, discuss writing methods, and give constructive feedback. Submissions must be sent ahead of time. Recommended for adults.
Event Categories: Authors, Books, Writing
Self-publishing a book can be a complicated and confusing process. Learn the essentials with hybrid author and literary agent Vicky Weber.
Event Categories: Authors, Books, Writing
New York Times bestselling author Ginny Myers Sain will discuss how to write Southern Gothic, a subgenre that adapts the eerie, macabre elements of traditional Gothic literature to the American South.
Event Categories: Authors, Books, Writing
Author and editor Lorin Oberweger will define show vs tell and discuss how to us each in alignment with pacing, dialogue, character development, genre, and more.
Event Categories: Authors, Books, Writing
New York Times bestselling author Ginny Myers Sain will discuss what it really means to write popular fiction and how to write to the market while still also writing what you want