About This Training
In Part II, we’ll discuss how narrative structure entails putting the external and the internal together. We’ll begin on the micro level with concepts such as pattern and variation, grip and release, and the classic pattern of Perepetaia -Anignorasis – Catastrophe. Then we’ll move on to a macro level focus, using graphic representations of various large-scale novel structures including the three act structure, the quartile structure, the hero’s journey, multiple story lines, and more—and we’ll discuss strategies for assessing and improving the underlying architecture of our own work..
About Tim Weed
Tim Weed is the author of four books of fiction. His recent novel, The Afterlife Project, was named a best book of 2025 by Library Journal and the Toronto Star. His work has won multiple Writer’s Digest Annual Fiction Awards and been shortlisted for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Prism Prize for Climate Literature, the Fish International Short Story Award, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for a Novel-in-Progress, the New Rivers Many Voices Project, and many others. His essays and articles have appeared in Writers Digest, Literary Hub, The Revelator, The Millions, The Writer’s Chronicle, Talking Points Memo, The Good Men Project, and elsewhere.
Tim serves on the core faculty of the Newport MFA in Creative Writing and is the co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program. A former featured expert for National Geographic Expeditions, he spent the first part of his career directing international educational programs throughout Latin America and in Spain, Portugal, Australia, Iceland, and other locations around the globe.
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