Announcing our next In-Person Workshop
Emotion in Fiction
Mary Otis
About Mary Otis
Mary Otis is the author of the short story collection, Yes, Yes, Cherries, and the novel Burst, Winner of the 2023 Silver Medal in Literary Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Here’s an interview with Mary.
Description of talk:
Emotion in Fiction
Five things you will learn:
- How do you illuminate a character's inner emotional world?
- How do you write emotion without it being clunky or sentimental?
- How do empathy and craft work in tandem?
- How does humor support grief?
- How do distance and indirection support emotion?
What you should bring
Your preferred method for taking notes.
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Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. and ends at 2:30 p.m.
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Event Contact: Eduardo Santiago
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