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Writers Workshops

FICTION INTENSIVE 2018-204

Course #2018-204
Saturday April 28 1:30 pm–5:00 pm and Sunday, April 29, 1:30 pm to 5 pm
Cost: $170 Instructor: Thomas McNeely

Where

Inprint House
1520 W Main St
Houston, TX 77006 United States
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WRITING FROM THE INSIDE OUT – THE ART OF CONFLICT


Characters want things from each other, often things that are impossible for them to get or for the other character to give. Characters, like people, want intimacy, power, revenge, freedom—often, desires that will never be resolved.  The pursuit of these impossible desires creates stories. In our first day of workshop, we will study published stories to explore how authors reveal character and motivation through conflict, and how these conflicts generate stories.  In the second day, we will workshop scenes that we have created and brainstorm how these scenes can be expanded into full-length stories.

About the instructor

THOMAS MCNEELY, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, has also received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the J. Frank Dobie Memorial Fellowship Project. His fiction has appreared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and various anthologies, including Best of the South: The Best of the Second Decade of New Stories from the South. His novel Ghost Horse was published in 2014.

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