Event
The Ultimate Craft Chat with Steve Almond: The Writer's Cheat Code
with Write or Die
March 20 • 7:30 PM (EST) - 8:30 PM (EST)
Dates
March 20 • 7:30 PM (EST) - 8:30 PM (EST)
Duration
1 hour
Location
Online
Price
Free
About the event
Join us for a fun virtual event where you'll have the opportunity to hang out with Steve Almond and celebrate the release of his new craft book, "Truth is the Arrow, Mercy the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories!"
Details
How can writers step back from their sentences and find their stories? That only happens when you start thinking about the relationship between 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 managing chronology.
This craft chat will to provide the ultimate cheat code to story, not just in the form of a lecture but by opening the floor to any questions you might bring about your own work. The goal is help writers find language, and straightforward solutions, for the struggles they encounter at the keyboard.
This is a Q&A session for anyone who’s ever had to work hard to get going—and keep going—at the keyboard.
Additional info
This event will be recorded and sent out to participants who have registered. If you would like to send your question to Steve prior to the event, please send them to kailey@chillsubs.com.
Featured authors
Steven Almond
Steve Almond [stevealmondjoy.org] is the author of a dozen books, including the NYT Bestsellers “Candyfreak” and “Against Football.” His next book, “Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow” will come out next month. It’s a book about craft, where stories comes from, and the struggles we encounter at the keyboard. A film based on his novel, “Which Brings Me to You,” just came out, and his latest novel, “All the Secrets of the World” has been optioned for TV by 20th Century Fox. Almond’s work has been published in Best America Short Stories, Best American Mysteries, Best American Erotica, and venues ranging from The New York Times Magazine to Ploughshares. He teaches at Harvard and Wesleyan and lives with his family outside Boston.