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SUMMARY:Begin With the End in Mind: A Backward Design Approach to Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:This workshop explores how to build a strong story by starting with the ending and working backward. Participants will learn how themes\, character arcs\, and conflict work together to shape compelling fiction with clear direction and a satisfying climax. This session examines how to identify thematic statements\, define character goals and motivations\, and create supporting characters whose skills and personalities actively contribute to the plot. The workshop also explores the major types of conflict and how conflict drives suspense. \nParticipants will learn how to: \n\nIdentify and articulate the main theme of a story.\nDefine character goals\, motivations\, and internal conflicts that provide forward momentum.\nDesign climaxes that resolve both the central conflict and the character’s internal arc.\nBuild supporting characters whose skills\, flaws\, and perspectives actively shape the outcome of the story.\nUnderstand the major types of conflict (internal and external) and how they develop from opening scene to climax.\nReverse-engineer plot structure by mapping key turning points backward from the ending.\n\nParticipants will learn how to build flexible story timelines that map major events from beginning to climax. \nWriters will leave the session with practical strategies for organizing ideas\, developing purposeful characters\, and structuring stories so that theme\, conflict\, and character arcs remain tightly integrated from the first to final scene.
URL:https://emsapublishing.com/event/begin-with-the-end-in-mind-a-backward-design-approach-to-storytelling/
LOCATION:Taylor’s Funeral Home\, 524 Davis Drive\, Newmarket\, ON\, L3Y 2P3\, Canada
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ORGANIZER;CN="Writers' Community of York Region (WCYR)":MAILTO:wcyr.cochair@gmail.com
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