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Saturday, May 11 • 4:15pm - 5:15pm
The Structure is Sound: How to Effectively Approach Multigenerational Sagas in Fiction
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If you're aiming to write a complex, multigenerational saga (and these days who isn’t?) you might benefit from considering the best structure to pull this off in your novel. In this session, we will go over concrete ideas and examples on how to effectively and affectively play with time, construct distinct timelines, and achieve a wide temporal aspect by looking at a range of literary fiction such as The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, and a few others. We will also consider plot-driven and character-driven books, poetic structures, and history-driven structures as a way to expand your narrative options and craft toolbox. You will leave our time together more confident and inspired to take on the larger and multilayered family narrative you’ve been putting off.
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Shilpi Suneja

Shilpi Suneja is the author of the novel, House of Caravans. Born in India, her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Guernica, McSweeney’s, Cognoscenti, Lit Hub, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. Her writing has been supported by a National Endowment for... Read More →

Saturday May 11, 2024 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
White Hill
  Fiction

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