Seeing As Story: A New Angle on Plot with Jenny Xie
Online

A story has a way of seeing. It has a way of understanding and making meaning—an inherent logic that arises out of what happens, what is explained, and what is left unsaid. How does a writer construct story out of this way of seeing? How do you control the narrative voice, balance the views of individual characters, and guide the reader’s attention across scene and setting to construct a world that feels real and compelling? In this session, we’ll study how POV can open up new angles on plot—how zooming in and out, skipping ahead or drawing out, can create narrative energy that’s an implicit answer to the question: And then what?