I had the pleasure recently of being in a novel workshop led by Lori Roy, award winning author of two literary mysteries. Ms. Roy agreed to answer a few questions about the writing craft. Lori Roy was born and raised in Kansas, is a graduate of Kansas State University and currently lives in Florida. Her […]
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Eckerd College Writers Conference Wrap-Up
I suspect few, if any, of the eight dozen “students” who attended the eight-day Eckerd College Writers Conference, went away dissatisfied. That, in and of itself, is remarkable and a testimony to the conference organizers and staff. While many of the students may have experienced a twinge of dissatisfaction when contemplating the status of their […]
Report on Days 4 & 5 from the Eckerd College Writers Conference
I’ll call the theme of Day 4 “wants versus needs” and that of Day 5 “story structure.” On Day 4, after the two workshop stories were discussed, we focused on identifying the elements of the story arc in the first part of the novel. Using the movie Legally Blond as a teaching devise, workshop leader […]
Report from Day 3 of the Eckerd College Writers Conference
After our morning workshop session, during which two more victims had their stories critiqued, we listened to two craft sessions––one on beginnings, the second on endings. The theme for the day (my label, not the conference’s) is beginning a story is like grasping the reader’s extended hand, holding it firmly throughout the story, then letting […]
Report on Day 2 of the Eckerd College Writers Conference
The Writers in Paradise Conference began officially this morning with welcome messages by the co-directors and a presentation by last night’s reading series author Tim O’Brien. Later we attended our first workshop with Lori Roy where we dissected the first two writers’ submissions and in the evening heard Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River, Shutter […]