Description
When considering narrative structure, writers often lean on familiar models like Freitag’s triangle, Save the Cat, Hero’s Journey, and others. Yet structural choices are far more fluid, intuitive, and inventive. We can build a narrative engine that adheres to the expectations of story, while making room for creativity and exploration. This workshop will introduce some innovative approaches to narrative, suggesting new ways to find the ideal structure for a book-length project. We’ll have an opportunity to draft and share a visual map of our work-in-progress.
About Amy Gottlieb
Amy Gottlieb’s debut novel, The Beautiful Possible, was a finalist for the Ribalow Prize, Wallant Award, and National Jewish Book Award. Her fiction and poetry have been published in On Being, Lilith, Ilanot Review, Paper Brigade, and Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, among others. She has given presentations on fiction writing at the Canberra Writers Festival, Sydney Jewish Writers Festival, AWP, New York Public Library, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City, where she teaches fiction workshops and works with individual writers on book projects.
