Seeing As Story: A New Angle on Plot with Jenny Xie

Seeing As Story: A New Angle on Plot with Jenny Xie quantity

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Seeing As Story: A New Angle on Plot with Jenny Xie
Saturday, September 26
9 AM – 12 PM PT / 12 PM – 3 PM ET
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A story has a way of seeing. It has a way of understanding and making meaning—an inherent logic that arises out of what happens, what is explained, and what is left unsaid. How does a writer construct story out of this way of seeing? How do you control the narrative voice, balance the views of individual characters, and guide the reader’s attention across scene and setting to construct a world that feels real and compelling? In this session, we’ll study how POV can open up new angles on plot—how zooming in and out, skipping ahead or drawing out, can create narrative energy that’s an implicit answer to the question: And then what?

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We have one scholarship available for this intensive. Scholarships are awarded via a random lottery drawn at least a week before the intensive. Please submit your name here to enter.

BIO: Jenny Xie is the author of Holding Pattern, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and named a best book of the year by The New York Times, Time, and Vogue. A winner of the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, Jenny has published stories in The Sewanee Review, AGNI, Ninth Letter, Joyland, Adroit Journal, Narrative, The Offing, the Best of the Net Anthology, and other journals. A graduate of UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University, Jenny has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, MacDowell, Yaddo, Kundiman, Aspen Words, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Loghaven, and other organizations. She’s currently based in Brooklyn, New York.