{"id":48865,"date":"2022-09-11T04:20:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=48865"},"modified":"2022-09-11T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T08:20:09","slug":"charles-kowalski-to-host-2022-japan-writers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/11\/charles-kowalski-to-host-2022-japan-writers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Kowalski to host 2022 Japan Writers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Posted by Tom Baker<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tokai University Professor and JET alum Charles Kowalski<\/a><\/strong> will be the host of this year’s Japan Writers Conference<\/a>, at his university’s Shonan Campus in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Oct 15-16. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is the author of the Japan-based middle-grade fantasy\u00a0Simon Grey and the March of a Hundred Ghosts<\/a><\/em>, and the contemporary thrillers\u00a0Mind Virus<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Devil\u2019s Son<\/a><\/em>. He has won the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Award, and has been a finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award, the Pacific Northwest Writers\u2019 Association Literary Award, and the Adventure Writers Grandmaster Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s Japan Writers Conference will feature approximately 27 different sessions on various aspects of the writing life, one of which will be presented by Charles himself. Here’s the official description<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charles Kowalski<\/strong>
The Magic of Humor
Craft Workshop
Fiction, Nonfiction<\/em>

What wizardry lies in writing magical symbols that make anyone who looks at them fall into helpless laughter? Here, we explore ways to infuse writing with laugh-out-loud humor, such as combining divergent situations to make a comic premise, creating comic characters, and running dialogue and narration through \u201cfunny filters.\u201d

Of all the ways to make people laugh, one of the hardest is through the written word. This workshop will present several techniques for infusing writing with laugh-out-loud humor, including:

How humor works by subverting expectations and creating new ones
How to combine disparate situations for comic effect
How to run ordinary dialogue and narration through \u201cfunny filters\u201d
How to create comic characters using archetypes, quirks, and comical situations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted by Tom Baker Tokai University Professor and JET alum Charles Kowalski will be the host of this year’s Japan Writers Conference, at his university’s Shonan Campus in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Oct 15-16. He is the author of the Japan-based middle-grade fantasy\u00a0Simon Grey and the March of a Hundred Ghosts, and the contemporary thrillers\u00a0Mind Virus\u00a0and\u00a0The Devil\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1427,408,6],"tags":[1433,314],"class_list":["post-48865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-writers-conference","category-jet-alum-author-beat","category-writers","tag-charles-kowalski","tag-japan-writers-conference"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t