{"id":2058,"date":"2011-04-18T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T20:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2011-04-18T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T20:57:26","slug":"teen-author-boot-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=2058","title":{"rendered":"Teen Author Boot Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe I mentioned this once before, but I&#8217;ll mention it again.\u00a0 This upcoming Saturday (April 23rd) I&#8217;ll be teaching at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writerscubed.com\/events_TeenBootCamp.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Teen Author Boot Camp<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a teen, and you&#8217;re interested in writing, this conference is a wonderful opportunity.\u00a0 The faculty line-up and the list of the classes they&#8217;ll be teaching is really great, just the kind of thing I wish had been available when I was a teenager.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be teaching a class called <em>Voice: Where do I get one of those?<\/em> Here&#8217;s the class summary:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Publishers often say they are  looking for fresh, compelling, and original voices. But what is voice?  And how do you get one? In this session, Matthew J. Kirby demystifies  the quality of voice in writing, and offers concrete strategies and  tools to help you develop yours.<\/p>\n<p>Other faculty include Kiersten White, J. Scott Savage, Emily Wing Smith, Sydney Salter, and Kristen Chandler.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll be teaching classes on things like dialog, creating characters, and plotting.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a feature story on the conference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldextra.com\/momclick\/kids\/article_1a71fe2e-5d5d-11e0-85cc-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>, if you want to read more about it.\u00a0 Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writerscubed.com\/events_drillSergeants.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">faculty and schedule<\/span><\/a>, and register <a href=\"https:\/\/aceware.uvsc.edu\/CourseStatus.awp?~~112CE01018A\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe I mentioned this once before, but I&#8217;ll mention it again.\u00a0 This upcoming Saturday (April 23rd) I&#8217;ll be teaching at the Teen Author Boot Camp.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a teen, and you&#8217;re interested in writing, this conference is a wonderful opportunity.\u00a0 The faculty line-up and the list of the classes they&#8217;ll be teaching is really [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}