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- IN PERSON The Hero's Journey, Virgin's Promise and Other Helpful Structures
IN PERSON The Hero's Journey, Virgin's Promise and Other Helpful Structures
One-Day Workshop | Saturday | May 25, 2024 | 10-3:30pm
Instructor: Susan Forest
MEMBER PRICE: $105.00 (with member coupon AWCSM25)
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $140.00
The commercial fiction genres rely heavily on structure to succeed. The Hero’s Journey is a key framework, and understanding its elements can give your book a strong sense of shape. However, other structures may offer a more appropriate underpinning for the story you are telling; or you may combine elements of several forms to enrich your characters’ lives and reveal twist opportunities for your plot. Come with your story ideas, drafts or completed novels to discuss.
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.