IN PERSON Backstory Secrets
Saturday | November 25, 2023 | 10am-3pm
Instructor: Susan Forest
MEMBER PRICE: $90.00 (with member coupon AWCSM25)
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $120.00
Backstory is tricky to interweave into your story effectively. Often, our mistake is to introduce it too soon, or all at once in one large infodump. When and how can it be feathered in effectively? Think of your backstory as a series of secrets your protagonist does not want to reveal. Make your audience hungry for backstory and deliver it at just the right moment! Bring your plot line of story events, and your backstory events, and use the tips from this one-day workshop to analyze your piece for optimal revelation of scandalous secrets!
This class takes place in person at the Alexandra Writers’ Centre in Calgary.
Susan Forest is the author of dual Aurora Award-winners Bursts of Fire (2019) and Flights of Marigold (2020) as well as over 25 internationally-published short stories (Analog, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies). She edits an award-winning anthology series for Laksa Media Groups, was Editor Guest of Honour at Keycon in 2022, and co-edited Life Beyond Us (2023). Gathering of Ghosts, the third novel of her Addicted to Heaven series (2023) confronts issues of addictions in an epic fantasy world of intrigue and betrayal.
