Workshop sessions

2004 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Schedule

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Thursday, March 25, 2004

5:30 to 6:30 pm.......................Attendee sign in

6:30 to 8 pm...........................What Can I Do for You and What Can You Do for Me?:

The Unspoken Language of Networking for Writers

Sophfronia Scott, novelist and former journalist for Time, People, and

Teen People, followed by networking reception

8:15 to 9:15 pm.................. ... Secrets of the Universe Revealed

Jill Conner Browne, New York Times bestselling author

(some seats open to the public for this session)

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Friday, March 26, 2004

8 to 8:45 am..................Attendee sign in/Continental breakfast

8:45 to 9 am..................Welcome and introductions

9 to 10 am......................The roots of storytelling inside the Hair Theater Studio

Stories about hairdo mayhem have been curling sold-out audiences’ hair at HAIR

THEATER, a performance piece written and performed by author, actor, and “Diva of

Dos” Patricia Wynn Brown. Pat’s keynote address will make you happily flip over

the fact that you are a writer, and spray into place writing’s positive effects in the

universe. The key success ingredient of the HAIR THEATER show is humor, for the

men and women in the audience. With the cunning little cocktail of comedy and

tragedy, and very high hair, Pat will give you a behind the beehive look at a show that

will insure you a “Good HERE Day.”

Patricia Wynn Brown, three-time winner of the James Thurber

"My Life and Hard Times" writing contest

10 to 10:15 am..............Break

10:15 to 11:45 am........7 concurrent sessions (read descriptions)

11:45 am to noon..........Break

Noon to 1:30 pm............Writing Funny For Money in Hollywood -- I was strong, I was

invincible, I was stupid (Tales from Mary Tyler Moore Show

through The Cosby Show and beyond.)

Lunch and Karyl Miller, Emmy award-winning sitcom writer-producer

1:30 to 1:45 pm.............Break

1:45 to 3:15 pm.............7 concurrent sessions (read descriptions)

3:15 to 4:15 pm.............Book signing and reception (purchase autographed copies of speakers' books)

4:15 to 8 pm..................Attendees on their own for dinner

8 to 9 pm.......................Don Novello, actor and author of From Bush to

Bush : The Lazlo Toth Letters

(some seats open to the public for this session)

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Saturday, March 27, 2004

8:30 to 9:30 am............Continental breakfast

9:30 to 10:30 am..........How to go from being an unknown writer to having a best seller

and a TV show and all it takes is 25 years of trying

Bruce Cameron, syndicated humor columnist and

New York Times best-selling author of 8 Simple Rules

10:30 to 10:45 am........Break

10:45 to 12:15 am........7 concurrent sessions (read descriptions)

12:15 to 12:30 pm........Break

12:30 to 2:00 pm.......... I Think I Hear Someone Laughing in Nebraska:

The trials and tribulations of writing a national humor column

Lunch and Craig Wilson, USA Today columnist

2 to 2:15 pm.................Break

2:15 to 3:45 pm............7 concurrent sessions (read descriptions)

3:45 to 4:45 pm...........Book signing and reception (purchase autographed copies of speakers' books)

4:45 to 8 pm................Attendees on their own for dinner

8 to 9 pm......................Nancy Cartwright, voice of Bart Simpson and author of

My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy

(some seats open to the public for this session)

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