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Muse & the Marketplace 2019

10:15am EDT

1B: Narrative Unbound: Experimental Structures in Essays and StoriesFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorSari Boren • Ron MacLean 1C: Writing Suspense Franklin Room - 4th FloorMichael Blanding 1E: Interiority in Fiction Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorTim Weed 1F: Revealing ExpositionFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorJon Pineda 1G: Object Lessons: An ExplorationFULL St. James Room - 4th FloorLaura van den Berg 1I: A Collection, a Book, a Conundrum: How to Make Your Short Story Collection Cohere Charles River Room - 4th FloorSteve Woodward

11:45am EDT

2A: Talking to Others and to Yourself: Using Dialogue and InteriorityFULL Tremont Room - 4th FloorSumita Mukherji 2B: Writing a True Beginning, Middle, and End Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorAlden Jones 2C: The Big Reveal, or Not: Sustaining Uncertainty in Fiction Cambridge Room - 4th FloorIdra Novey 2I: Don't Throw the Book Out With the Bathwater: On Dramatically Reenvisioning Your Manuscript White Hill Room - 4th FloorMira Jacob • Celeste Ng 2J: Inventing the Real: Writing Fiction about Real People Franklin Room - 4th FloorChristopher Castellani 2M: Writing and Activism: A Crash-Course St. James Room - 4th FloorGarrard Conley

2:15pm EDT

3B: 10 Takeaways for Authors Writing Historical Fiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorCrystal King 3C: The Trouble with BackstoryFULL Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorKatherine Sherbrooke 3E: Navel Gazing and Other Worthy Pursuits: A Character-Building GameFULL Cabot Room - 4th FloorAngie Chatman • Athena Dixon 3H: Writing the Action Set-Piece White Hill Room - 4th FloorBenjamin Percy 3L: Plot Engine Tricks Tremont Room - 4th FloorAnnie Hartnett

3:45pm EDT

4B: Going Global: Engaging with the World's Literatures Gloucester Room - 4th FloorStacy Mattingly • Dariel Suarez 4D: The Oversight Draft: From Manuscript to Publishable Draft Whittier Room - 4th FloorAmina Gautier 4E: Establishing AuthorityFULL Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorRob Spillman 4G: Writing on Race: Your Own Identity & the Identity of Others Franklin Room - 4th FloorDavid Mura 4H: Essentials of Humor Cabot Room - 4th FloorSteve Macone 4I: Small Gestures Make Big Characters Tremont Room - 4th FloorBecky Tuch 4K: Rewind, Fast Forward, Pause, Play: Negotiating Time in Fiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorMaya Lang

10:30am EDT

5B: Writing While Multilingual: How to Leverage Your Languages for Strong Fiction Gloucester Room - 4th FloorAnjali Duva 5H: Sex, Race, and Power: Writing About TaboosFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorMaurice Carlos Ruffin 5I: The Revisionist: Using Your Inner Editor as a Writer St. James Room - 4th FloorJennifer Baker 5J: Dare to Break the Ultimate Writing Rule: Why "Show Don't Tell" Is a CrockFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorSteve Almond 5K: The Sentence: A Love StoryFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorRob Cohen 5L: Essentials of StructureFULL Tremont Room - 4th FloorAdam Stumacher

1:00pm EDT

6A: First Page Clinic: Making the Most of It White Hill Room - 4th FloorChristopher Castellani • Michael Borum • Stephen McCauley • Mameve Medwed • Sebastian Stuart 6B: Lessons from the Novel IncubatorFULL Gloucester Room - 4th FloorMichelle Hoover 6D: All In: Raising the Stakes – and Making them Matter – in Fiction Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorRon MacLean 6E: The Literary Page Turner: Learning to Write with Both PedalsFULL Stuart Room - 4th FloorKatie Bayerl 6G: Disentangling TimeFULL St. James Room - 4th FloorLynne Barrett 6H: How I Wrote This: Discussion of THE ANSWERS, by Catherine Lacey Exeter Room - Mezzanine LevelCatherine Lacey • Laura van den Berg 6J: The Inside/Outside Story: Balancing Character Emotion & Story Action Tremont Room - 4th FloorLynne Griffin 6L: Image Systems Cambridge Room - 4th FloorTim Weed

3:00pm EDT

7A: I Want You To Want Me: Using Desire to Create Complex CharactersFULL Stuart Room - 4th FloorHeather Abel 7D: Structuring a Novel with Good Bones Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorRandy Susan Meyers 7F: It’s HOW You Say It: Exploring Voice in FictionFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorMira T. Lee • Val Wang 7H: Person and Place: Writing Effective SettingsFULL St. James Room - 4th FloorCaitlin Horrocks 7J: Writing Dark HumorFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorNafissa Thompson-Spires 7K: Thrusting Swords and Quivering Orchids: How Not to Write Sex Scenes Newbury Room - 4th FloorChip Cheek • Whitney Scharer 7L: On Writing Epic Novels: A Conversation with Min Jin Lee White Hill Room - 4th FloorChristine Pride • Min Jin Lee 7N: Blurred Boundaries: Blending Fiction & Non-FictionFULL Gloucester Room - 4th FloorTasneem Zehra Husain

4:30pm EDT

8A: Writing In the #MeToo Era Cabot Room - 4th FloorKrystal Sital 8B: Super-Powered Storytelling Tremont Room - 4th FloorBenjamin Percy 8F: Outlining: Charting Your Book to Reach Your Destination Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorJenna Blum 8I: Me, Myself, and I: Establishing and Sustaining First Person POV in an Entire Novel Newbury Room - 4th FloorSusan Bernhard 8K: Not so dear Jenny: Collaborating with Existing TextsFULL Gloucester Room - 4th FloorJennifer Tseng 8L: Irresistable CharactersFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorSteve Almond

10:00am EDT

9A: Yeah You're Working, Building a MysteryFULL Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorRebecca Makkai 9B: Crossing Paths: The Map of Opportunity in Story Stuart Room - 4th FloorLynne Barrett 9E: Perfecting Voice in Historical Fiction Franklin Room - 4th FloorVirginia Pye 9H: She's Terrible, and I Love Her: On "Unlikable" Female Characters White Hill Room - 4th FloorKelly J. Ford • Michelle Hoover 9I: Essentials of Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Charles River Room - 4th FloorTyrese Coleman 9K: History Walks With Us: Mythology, Memory, & Fantasy in the World and in Fiction Newbury Room - 4th FloorLeslie Shipman 9L: Do Not Think: On Creating and Sustaining the Narrative "Dream" Whittier Room - 4th FloorAndre Dubus III

11:30am EDT

10A: The Textures and Music of Language: Learning from Poets Tremont Room - 4th FloorBen Berman 10C: Literary Idol: Fiction Focus White Hill Room - 4th FloorSorche Fairbank • Serene Hakim • Steve Macone • Kiana Nguyen • Steve Woodward 10F: Op-ed Writing for Novelists and Nonfiction Writers: Making Your Voice Heard in Polarizing Times Newbury Room - 4th FloorLinda K. Wertheimer 10H: Scene CPR Cambridge Room - 4th FloorLisa Borders 10I: Killer First Sentences St. James Room - 4th FloorSpencer Wise 10E: Magic Carpet: Creating a Sense of Place in Fiction Stuart Room - 4th FloorMitali Perkins 10L: Researching Into the Void Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorRebecca Makkai