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; and how to make sure the reader is interested in the same
things that you are as a storyteller. With these tools we will build a new path that leads from
great idea to compelling narrative.
