Workshop Leaders
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Make Your Story Opening Shine with KC Grifant
Read more / watch…: Make Your Story Opening Shine with KC GrifantWatch this excerpt from one of award-winning author KC Grifant’s workshops for Reach Your Apex, “Sellable Short Stories: What Editors Want (And Don’t Want).” KC shares the ingredients, including examples, for a strong opening that will help your story escape the slush pile.
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How I Create A Character Who Can Lead My Short Story
Read more / watch…: How I Create A Character Who Can Lead My Short Story“Names are actually incredibly, incredibly important. It’s something not enough people pay attention to. Names tell you pretty much everything about a person. It tells you where they’re from, what culture they’re from, what period of time they’re from,” says award-winning author Lavie Tidhar in this excerpt from his workshop on writing the Science Fiction…
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Write More Innovative Stories
Read more / watch…: Write More Innovative Stories“This is one of the things that I think is just about as important as it could be. Because a lot of the time when you’re creating an innovation in an art form, what you’re doing is borrowing from another art form,” says New York Times best-selling author, Carlos Hernandez in this excerpt from a…
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How To Use Setting To Heighten Your Story
Read more / watch…: How To Use Setting To Heighten Your Story“Something I love to see is filtering the setting through the character. Take into account the things your character would see, and pay attention to the things your character wouldn’t see. A librarian and a criminal investigator are going to notice different things and their brains are going to travel down different paths.” Apex Magazine…
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Making (And Fulfilling) Promises In Your Story
Read more / watch…: Making (And Fulfilling) Promises In Your Story“It shows that you’re writing intentionally, that you know what you’re doing, that the reader can trust you, when you make promises… early in the story.” Apex Magazine Managing Editor, Rebecca E Treasure, talks about the power of promises in your story in this excerpt from her live workshop, “Six Powerful Exercises For Polishing Your…
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Collective Point-Of-View: Its Unique Powers And Specific Weaknesses
Read more / watch…: Collective Point-Of-View: Its Unique Powers And Specific Weaknesses“There’s something kind of eerie, and magical and mystical about hearing a story from a collective ‘we’ rather than from one person.” Award-winning storyteller and published author, Sage Tyrtle, explores the power (and the pitfalls) of the collective point-of-view in storytelling.
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THE DIVISIVE SECOND PERSON POV – How, When, And Why To Use It (And When NOT To)
Read more / watch…: THE DIVISIVE SECOND PERSON POV – How, When, And Why To Use It (And When NOT To)“Second person… implicates the reader, and this is part of why it’s divisive.” Award-winning storyteller and published author, Sage Tyrtle, talks about how, when and why to use second person point-of-view (and when not to) in this workshop excerpt.
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SECRETS TO IMPROVE YOUR STORY’S PACING
Read more / watch…: SECRETS TO IMPROVE YOUR STORY’S PACING“You want to have an idea of what your story is about, what the story is. That’s going to help you know when the beginning is and when the end is. And it’s going to take you along that journey.” Utopia Science Fiction Magazine Editor-In-Chief, Tristan Evarts, shares his secrets to improve your story’s pacing.
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Catnip For Editors: Subverting Tropes In Your Short Story
Read more / watch…: Catnip For Editors: Subverting Tropes In Your Short Story“Subverting tropes—if done well—is one of the best ways to make your story fresh, and it’s kind of like catnip to editors.” Award-winning author and anthology editor, KC Grifant, shares why and how to subvert tropes in your short story to make it irresistible to editors.
