Muse & the Marketplace 2019

In this session, you’ll learn to balance crafting compelling characters with choosing fresh plot lines, manipulating pacing, and highlighting setting in ways that support the central action and themes of your stories. Yet Robert Olen Butler has said that “in the most exciting literary works, internal conflict runs parallel to, or resonates through, some larger conflict in the external world." In other words, the writer must capture the interaction between the inside story and the outside story forming a uniquely propulsive narrative.

In this session, you’ll learn how to balance crafting compelling characters with choosing fresh plot lines, manipulate pacing, and highlight setting in ways that support the central action and themes of your stories.