Story Elements: Conflict and Resolution
Writer's Workshop
Why do stories need conflict? Conflict is a literary tool that helps drive the plot forward. Come learn how to create convincing conflict in your story.
About the presenter: Jeanette Watts is the author of Jane Austen Lied to Me, My Dearest Miss Fairfax, Wealth and Privilege, and Brains and Beauty. She has an honorable mention in the Rainbow Awards for her adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion. Besides writing historical fiction, satires, and LGBTQ+ romance, she has also written television commercials, one-act melodramas, Old West saloon shows, dance textbooks, and marketing newspapers. She has also written unproduced television and movie scripts and unpublished erotica. You could say she just likes words.
Registration is encouraged.
- Sep 7, Where to Begin, 7 pm
- Sep 21, Story Elements: Setting and Suspense, 7 pm
- Oct 5, Story Elements: Pacing and Point of View, 7 pm
- Oct 19, Story Elements: Conflict and Resolution, 7 pm
- Nov 2, Finishing Your Story, 7 pm
- Nov 30, Short Story Awards Ceremony & Reading, 7 pm
Interested in our Short Story Contest? Entries due November 11. Visit champaign.org/short-story for additional details.
Registration is closed.
Main Library, Robeson Pavilion Room A & B
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