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Do Your Settings Work as Hard as You Do? (2 Hours)
Friday May 2, 2025 2:00pm - 4:15pm MDT
Palmer
(2-Hour Workshop) If your settings aren’t doing double duty (or even triple duty), they’re not working hard enough. Explore how your settings can go beyond location and time to reveal your character's personality, enhance or instigate conflict, and establish tone, mood, and atmosphere—all without slowing down your story. Discussion, examples, and hands-on writing exercises will help you make settings an important tool in your “show, don't tell” toolbox.
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avatar for Kelley J. P. Lindberg

Kelley J. P. Lindberg

President, Blue Raven Services Inc.
Kelley J. P. Lindberg writes award-winning YA and adult fiction, and sometimes admits to having written several best-selling how-to books. Her fiction and essays have appeared in literary magazines, in anthologies including PPW’s Journeys into Possibility, and in the Tellables app... Read More →
Friday May 2, 2025 2:00pm - 4:15pm MDT
Palmer
  Craft of Writing

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