An Awesome Day At The Calgary Young Writer's Conference

This Saturday I attended a CBE (short for Calgary Board of Education, which is the school system I go to)-hosted conference called The Calgary Young Writer's Conference.
First all of us listened to a keynote speaker who was Tim Wynne-Jones (the Canadian author of Some Of The Kinder Planets, Rex Zero, The Uninvited, and others)! He is a very funny speaker who had us laughing for about three quarters of his entire presentation. It was very awesome.
After that we had our first sessions with other presenters. Mine was Nicole Luiken (visit her website at http://nicoleluiken.com), author of Frost, Violet Eyes, Dreamfire, and more. She talked to us about how to create a good beginning so your readers will be drawn in from Page One. I think beginnings are very important in a story as a lot of books I gave up reading had a boring beginning! I am creating a new page called StorieWriter that's all about writing and I will include her tips there, but for now you can go to http://www.storiewriter.weebly.com/ to see information about writing.
Then we had a lunch break where we could purchase snacks, eat our lunches that were brought, and browse the Bookstore (which was full of books by the authors that presented).
My second session was with Mar'ce Merrell (visit her websites at http://www.marcemerrell.com/ and http://www.thecakeprincess.blogspot.com/) who taught us how to bring our story characters to life and to know them better.
Both of my presenters were amazing.
If you go to school, check if your school or school system has a similar event. Because it's really worth attending.