Everyone, from acquisition editors to the reading public, picks up your pages with certain expectations. If you disappoint a reader, your manuscript gets rejected, or you miss a sale. This workshop offers pointers on how to anticipate your promises to the reader, how to keep those promises, and meet reader expectations.
Subjects to be covered include:
- How readers’ unstated expectations change with genre
- How much do your readers need to know—and when do they need to know it?
- Writing 3-D people, not cardboard characters or caricatures
- How motivation builds character, and character builds story promises
- The harder the character struggle, the bigger the promise
- What strengthens or weakens a plot
- How to delay outcome without frustrating the reader
- Delivering a satisfying finish
Staffed by:
- Jean Jenkins