Watch this excerpt from one of award-winning author Lavie Tidhar’s workshops for Reach Your Apex, “Writing The Story: From Conception To Sale.” Lavie talks about using details within brief descriptions to convey outsized information about the world in which your characters live. This is an especially valuable technique for short stories where space is limited.
Lavie Tidhar is author of numerous novels such as Osama, A Man Lies Dreaming, Central Station, Neom, and Maror. His awards include the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards, the John W. Campbell Award, the Neukom Prize and the Jerwood Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. A prolific author of short stories, he has published more than two hundred, everywhere from Tor.com (where he created the popular Judge Dee series of vampire mysteries) to Analog, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld and Apex. As editor, he created the five-volume Apex Book of World SF series and edited the three volumes of The Best of World SF. Currently an honorary visiting professor and writer in residence at the American International University in London, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on fantasy fiction and creative writing.
Lavie Tidhar’s next workshop
Sell Your Vision: Using The Power Of Packaging
Join Lavie Tidhar, award-winning author, as he takes you through the stages of developing a literary manuscript into a professional media pitch. Using specific industry examples including his own, Lavie will discuss how to break down and build up again a work of fiction into a potentially-sellable property.
