Vin Dacquino will once again address high school students at the annual Young Adult Authors’ Conference to be held on May 18th, 2021. Dacquino has presented at the conference for over 30 years. Due to the Corona Virus, the event this year will be virtual.
Vin will present
“As it was in the Beginning—“ Have you ever read the first paragraph or page of a novel or short story and refused to continue reading? What stopped you? How do good writers hold their readers beyond the first page? In this workshop we will rate various beginnings of great and not so great stories, discuss techniques to capture readers, and then write some beginnings of our own with the help of 5 of the most basic tools of writing.