Willamette Writers Conference
Aug. 6th-8th
Levers , Ratchets , and Buttons:
Creating Emotional Tension
Currently scheduled for 8:30-10:00 am, Sunday the 8th
This interactive seminar demonstrates techniques for generating and managing emotional tension in your fiction, long or short. Award-winning writer Eric Witchey leads this exploration of techniques and will demonstrate how to use back story to create emotional leverage, indirect dialog to ratchet up the tension, and personal wounds to create compelling, revealing buttons your characters won’t be able to resist pushing.
Variations on a Scene
Currently Scheduled for 10:30 to Noon on Sunday, the 8th
This interactive seminar demonstrates how to derive variations on scene structure and scene sequence from a classically structured scene. Award-winning writer Eric Witchey will demonstrate the power of breaking your scenes, knitting them together, and setting them up to support one another in switchback plotting. |
