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Finding the Ending: Not a How-To
Guest-poster Deborah L Williams helps us think about bows, piles, circles, and the trickiness of audience expectations
Sep 25
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Deborah L Williams
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Finding the Ending: Not a How-To
Guest-poster Deborah L Williams helps us think about bows, piles, circles, and the trickiness of audience expectations
Sep 25
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Deborah L Williams
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Sep 21
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Andromeda Romano-Lax
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Week 8: Do the Twist. Or Don't! (But I Think You Sort of Want To)
Our 8 Week Summer School Series Concludes
Sep 4
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Week 7: What's It About? (Theme)
Our Eight Week Summer School series continues
Aug 28
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Week 6: What a "hard corn kernel" has to do with tension (but not suspense)
Our Eight Week Summer School series continues
Aug 21
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Week 5: Containment
Our Eight Week Summer School series continues
Aug 14
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Week 4: Setting
Our Eight Week Summer School Series continues
Aug 8
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Week 3: Voice
Our Eight Week Summer School Series continues
Aug 1
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July 2025
Week 2: Character
Our Eight Week Summer School Series continues
Jul 25
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Andromeda Romano-Lax
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Welcome to our Eight-Week Summer School Series
Genre, Character, Voice, Setting, Tension, Containment, Theme, and Twists—direct to your inbox
Jul 19
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Andromeda Romano-Lax
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What I’d Tell My Younger, Pre-Book Deal Self
And the one thing I would NOT tell her
Jul 3
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Kristin Offiler
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