1 session, Wednesday May 8th, 7-9 pm EST
online
$100
Enroll in this class.
Join best-selling author and craft maven Steve Almond in this fast-paced class that focuses on how to step back from your sentences so that you can find your story. That only happens when you start thinking about the larger issues of Character, Plot, and Chronology. Discovering your character’s desires, and their inhibitions, is a direct link to plot. Finding the chain of consequence that drives the plot is the key to figuring out how to tell the story. Too often, classes focus on just one aspect of craft, without realizing that these elements are intimately linked, and can only be solved by thinking about them in relation to one another. Consider this the ultimate cheat code to story.
Suggested companion text: Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories (Zando, April 2024)
About the instructor
Steve Almond is the author of twelve books of fiction and non-fiction including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His first novel, Which Brings Me to You (co-written with Julianna Baggott) was made into way-better-than-he-expected movie starring Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff. His last novel, All the Secrets of the World, is in development for television by 20th Century Fox. His work has appeared in the Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, Best American Mysteries, and the NYT Magazine. His most recent book, Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow, is about craft, inspiration, and how to keep going at the keyboard. Almond teaches at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and lives outside Boston with his family and his anxiety.