Live Training with Patrick Barb.
About This Training
In this workshop, we’ll focus on 2 of the most important elements in a successful short story: the opening and the conclusion. For the opening: we’ll cover the importance of a good title, good first sentence, good paragraph; effective openings; setting the scene/tone/characters with the opening; establishing stakes and genre. For endings: we’ll cover paying off the promise of the beginning, tying the ending to the beginning formally, leaving the reader satisfied but wanting more. Students will have a chance to share their opening sentences/paragraphs and have group brainstorm potential endings based on the opening.
About Patrick Barb
Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and spooky stories, hailing from the southern United States and currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) with his wife two kids, and a naughty (but lovable) puppy in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As a writer, his short fiction appears in Best Horror of the Year Vol. 16, Nightscript, Diabolical Plots, and Cosmic Horror Monthly, among other publications. His longer works include the novellas Gargantuana’s Ghost (Grey Matter Press), Turn (Alien Buddha Press), JK-LOL (Mad Axe Media), Night of the Witch-Hunter (Killer VHS, Shortwave), and The Nut House (serialized in Cosmic Horror Monthly, coming soon in a collected edition from Undertaker Books and in Spanish from Dimensiones Ocultas), the novelettes Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare (Spooky House Press) and “So Quiet, So White” in Split Scream Vol. 3 (Tenebrous Press), and his dark fiction collections The Children’s Horror (Northern Republic Press) and Pre-Approved for Haunting (Keylight Books/Turner Publishing). He is the editor and publisher of the anthology And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel. Barb is an Active Member and Trustee of the Horror Writers Association.
Literary Rep: Pam Gruber, High Line Literary Collective
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