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Edge of your Seat: How to add Suspense to your Writing

Dates: August 10-28, 2009
Instructor: Fleur Bradley
Cost: FREE to FTHRW members; $20.00 for all others
Registration Deadline: August 5, 2009

Course Description:

Do you ever wonder what makes that book such a page-turner? Wish you could keep a reader at the edge of your seat with your writing?

This workshop teaches you how to write riveting fiction, and how to write chapters that keep your story moving relentlessly forward.

The workshop has the following lessons, each with an exercise to apply to your own work:

1. Recognizing opportunities for suspense: Plot

2. Recognizing opportunities for suspense: Character

3. Red Herrings: What they are and how to use them

4. Ending every chapter with a cliffhanger

5. Wrapping up loose ends

6. Suspense checklist

About the Instructor:

Fleur Bradley (www.fleurbradley.com) is a crime fiction writer from Colorado. Dozens of her short stories have been published online and in print, plus her articles on writing have been published in Apollo's Lyre and the Erickson Tribune. She s written a YA suspense novel which is now under consideration with several agents.

How to register:

Fee: FTHRW Members: FREE; FTHRW Non-Members: $20.00

Click here to register before August 5, 2009.

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