Curiosity, Exploration and a Good Yarn with Cara DiGirolamo

Stuck on structure? Does thinking about act breaks make you feel disconnected from your story? In this workshop, Cara will present an alternative way of approaching your story arc and keeping your readers interested. Informed by script doctor David Baboulene’s theory of knowledge gaps and other formal approaches to literature, we will explore a technique that uses the readers’ curiosity to draw them through the story. We will ask what kind of questions keep your readers engaged; how the readers’ knowledge of genre conventions shapes the narrative; whether to treat the reader as an audience or an ally; how to make sure the reader is interested in the same things that you are as a storyteller; and how to build a great climax. With these tools, we will build a new path that leads from a great idea to a compelling narrative.​

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About Cara DiGirolamo

Cara DiGirolamo is an…