Fyrecon Schedule Saturday, June 23, 2018
Building D2 Room 318
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Beyond 300 pages: Expanding Your Universe
C. Michelle Jefferies
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Formatting Ebooks (and Print!)
Jalete Clegg
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Grand Argument Theory of Writing, Part One: Character
Robert J. Defendi
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Grand Argument Theory of Writing, Part Two: Structure
Robert J. Defendi
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Perfect Ending
Ben Ireland
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Food for Thought
Karen Hoover
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Books to Movies: Does Anybody Get it Right
Blake Casselman, Nathan Shumate, David Farland, and Nichole Giles
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Paint with Me
Dave Dorman and Chad Hardin
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Building D2 Room 320
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Self Editing
Holli Anderson and Jason King
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Illustration and Art Direction for Games
Preston Stone
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Producing Board Games
Alan Bahr (m), Daniel Peterson, Craig Nybo
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Limited Color Pallett
Jess Smart Smiley
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Weaponizing the Submission Grinder for Your Short Fiction
Julie Frost
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Being a Good Freelancer
Alan Bahr (m), Shawn Carmen, Will Munn, Drew Gerken
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Technology's Disruption of the Game Industry
Will Munn (m), Natasha Ence, Alan Bahr, Craig Nybo
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Techniques for Worldbuilding Without Infodumping
M.K. Hutchins
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Lean World Building
Drew Gerken, Will Munn
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Building D2 Room 303
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Advanced Watercolor Class
Alyson Peterson
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Resin Casting
Carter Reid
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Webcomics: Doing it All Yourself
Jemma Young
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Marketing Blackhole: How to Figure Out What to Focus On
Carter Reid, Jared Garrett, and Mike Lovin
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Coloring Your Fantasy Forests
Kaitlund Zupanic
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Selling Your Art
Carter Reid, Jemma Young, and Rowan North
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building D2 Room 306
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Blog Tours: Are They Worth the Hype
Graham Bradley and James Wymore
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Real-Life Presentation: You can be a Mouse, But Will You Sell Books?
Brad R. Torgersen
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Building D2 Room 114
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Beyond Old White Guys with Long Beards and Pointy Hats
Jalete Clegg
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Editing Basics and Beyond: Think Past Periods and Commas
Eschler Editing Group Senior Editors Sabine Berlin and Heidi Brockbank
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Advanced Dialogue Techniques
Chersti Nieveen
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Using Microsoft Word like a Pro
John M. Olsen & Lyn Worthen
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Empowering Emotion: Ten Ways to Make a Reader Care More
Christie Craig
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The Editing Funnel
Angela Eschler, Callie Stoker, JoSelle Vanderhooft, and Lyn Worthen
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Query Like You Mean It
Michelle Witte
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Best Friend or Romantic Interest: How to Setup the Character
Christie Craig, Dan Willis, David Powers King, and Ryan Decaria
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Anti-villains We Hate to Love--And Yet, We Do
Nichole Giles
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Building D2 Room 117
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Gut Punch your Audience with Emotion
Jodi L. Milner
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Power Outlining
Dan Willis
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Six Weapons for Crushing Your Productivity Enemies
Jared Garrett
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Monsters of Appalachia
Jay Barnson
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Plotting Short Stories like the Pulp Masters
Bryce Beattie
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Cost of Resurrection
Jaleta Clegg
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Writing Alternate History
Eric Swedin
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Villains and Theme: How One Needs the Other
Chersti Nieveen
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Breaking Down Book Contracts
M. Scott Boone
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Say More with Less: Effective Dialogue
Callie Stoker
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Building D3 Room 341
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Extra Credit YA
Kathryn Olsen
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Love Stories that Aren't a Triangle
Jana S. Brown
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Spinning Wheels and Fairy Tales
Beth Buck
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Finding Balance in Storytelling (Not everything can explode all the time)
Jodi L. Milner
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Chapter Outline for the Teens
C. Michelle Jefferies
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
How Do I wreck This?
Graham Bradley
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The Platinum Boomerang - What Makes Stories Feel Right
Michael Darling
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Fairy Tales You Should Know and Probably Don't
Julie Barnson
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
How to Start Your Own Podcast and Keep it Going for Years, Not Just Episodes
Ryan Decaria, Brent Mair
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Fear as a Story Telling Tool
Ben Ireland
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Building D3 Room 302
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead- Creating Side Characters
Jana S. Brown
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Tips and Tricks for Capturing Realistic Likenesses
Dave Dorman
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Landscape Painting. Tips, Tricks and shortcuts to painting landscapes
Sean Nathan Ricks
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Draw It With Me: Character Concepts
Brian C. Hailes
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Start Your Creativity Engines
Renae Kingsley
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Digital Character Creation 03 - Painting in the Color and Adding Texture
Dennis Dorrity
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Prepping for Print
Jemma Young and Jess Smart Smiley
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Building D3 Room 304
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Artemis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator
Have you ever wanted to be part of the bridge on a starship?
9:00 am - 7:00 pm
Building D3 Room 306
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
10 Things your Art Teacher Never Told You (But You Should Know)
Rowan North
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Beginning Calligraphy
John M. Olsen
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Inking
Chad Hardin
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Ever wanted to make your own stuffed animals?
Hannah Swedin
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Balancing Mechanical with Organic
Dave Dorman
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Book Cover Design For Indie Publishers
Nathan Shumate
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Building D3 Room 307
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Intellectual Property II: Getting Rights in Your Creative Work and Maximizing Their Value
M. Scott Boone
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Using Mermaids to Encourage Literacy
Erin Spencer
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Courtroom Scenes
Michael S. Glassford
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure: the Copyright Edition
M. Scott Boone
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
10 Library Secrets You Need to Know
Liesl Seborg
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Kickstarters/Crowdfunding your Projects
Cody Hallett
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Author Websites 101
Bryce Beattie
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building D3 Room 340
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
World Building Workshop
Daniel Swenson
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Dragon Slaying & Other Extreme Sports
Jill Bowers
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
How to Make Monsters: The Mechanics of Evolution and Biodiversity
Derick William Dalton
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
Julie Wright
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The Young Writer's Life: A Primer
Scott E. Tarbet & Laurie Jones
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Finding Joy in Little Successes
Beth Buck
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Of Course You're A Storyteller!
Kathryn Olsen
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Building D2 Room 110
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Comic Books: Publishers, Where to Go, How to Approach
Blake Casselman, Brian C. Hailes, Chad Hardin, Jess Smart Smiley, and Mike Lovin
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Ten Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started
David Howard
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Publishing Comics: Traditional vs Self Publishing
Chad Hardin, Jemma Young, and Jess Smart Smiley
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
The World of Wordcraft and How to Avoid Purple Prose
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Karen C. Evans, and Ryan Decaria
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Our Favorite Games
Natasha Ence (m), Shawn Carmen, Alan Bahr, Rob Carlos
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
To Spoil or Not to Spoil: How to Tease a book on Social Media
Brad R. Torgersen, Dan Willis, David Farland, and Jess Smart Smiley
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Augmented and Virtual Reality: Gimmick or Game-Changer?
Jay Barson and James Wymore
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Common Game Design Mistakes (And how to avoid them!)
Natasha Ence (m), Craig Nybo, Shawn Carmen, Alan Bahr
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Master Artists to Know
Rowan North, Hannah Swedin, and Devon Dorrity
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Building D2 Room 111
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Weber University Class - Please do not Disrupt Classes
University class are in progress - Please remember to respect the Host of this event
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Literary Literacy: Books You Should Read
Eric Swedin, Jill Bowers, Johnny Worthen, Michael Darling, and Sabine Berlin
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Worldbuilding Basics: Developing Background and Setting for Deeper Storytelling
Chuck Workman
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Writing Mental Illness with Sensitivity
JoSelle Vanderhooft
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Worth of an Edito
Angela Eschler, Beth Buck, Callie Stoker, Jill Bowers, and Kevin H Evans
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Building D2 Room 301
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Writing YA that Isn't Adults in Teens Bodies
Christie Craig, David Powers King, Johnny Worthen, Ryan Decaria, and Sabine Berlin
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Live Critique
Bryan Young
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Screenwriting Essentials: Building a Cinematic Story
Blake Casselman, David Howard
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Gaming
Paragon City
2:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Atrium
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Photo Booth
Vladimir Chopine
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Live Photo Shoot - Come and Practice Photography
Vladimir Chopine and the Utah Mermaids
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Photo Booth
Vladimir Chopine
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Atrium
8am - Reg. Opens
8:00 am - 9:00 am
C. Michelle Jefferies Book Launch
C. Michelle Jefferies
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm