Breadcrumbing to Build Suspense

DFWCon Writers Conference - https://dfwcon.org/
Hurst Conference Center
Hurst, TX / Oct 4 & 5

For those who register for the DFWCon Writers Conference, author & editor Jalyn Renae Fiske is teaching two classes over the course of the weekend. Exact times are TBD. If you're there, please come to one or both classes! This page will be updated as the schedule is finalized.

BREADCRUMBING TO BUILD SUSPENSE

Long exposition can K*ll the pace and tension in a story or novel. Ditch info dumping and embrace breadcrumbing to build suspense. Join author and editor Jalyn Renae Fiske and learn how to steadily feed your readers the clues they need to follow the plot and turn the page but not so much that it gives it all away.

BIO:
Jalyn Renae Fiske is an author of speculative fiction and fiction editor at James Gunn's Ad Astra magazine. She writes blends of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that are at times unsettling, strange, or whimsical. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in The Science Fiction Tarot anthology, Allegory, Wyldblood, Mythaxis, and Fabled Planet, among others. Her debut short story collection, Side Quest: Stories, was the 2024 Reader Views Literary Award winner for the Southern Region and the gold medal winner in Short Story Collections. Find out more at www.jrenaewriter.com.

You may also like the following events from Jalyn Renae Fiske, author:

• This Saturday, 6th September, 02:00 pm, Author Jalyn Renae Fiske @ Frisco Book Fest in Frisco
• This month, 21st September, 10:00 am, Short & Sweet: A Flash Fiction Workshop in Frisco
• Next month, 4th October, 09:00 am, Get Published: A Practical Guide to Submitting & Selling Short Works in Hurst

Also check out other Arts events in Hurst, Literary Art events in Hurst, Workshops in Hurst.