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Just-In-Time Description and World Building
Friday May 2, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am MDT
Douglas
Whether you’re writing modern murder mysteries, historical rom-coms, urban fantasies, or space operas, your characters exist in a world that includes mundane features like geography, transportation, and money (does your protagonist need a MetroCard to hop the NYC subway?) and deeper aspects such as religion, politics, magic, bureaucracies, pandemics, or natural disasters. Learn how to avoid info-dumping while still creating a believable world that your characters inhabit and your readers will love.
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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 8:30am - 9:30am MDT
Douglas
  Craft of Writing

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