About This Training
In Part III, using brief passages from great novels and stories as models, we’ll dig beneath the typical blueprints of novel architecture to look into some of the less obvious structural sources of narrative drive. We’ll make distinctions between mystery, suspense, and dramatic irony, and we’ll discuss strategies for point of view and the release of information to keep the pages turning. A combination of discussion and brief, dynamic writing exercises will give participants a better grasp on the tools they need to make their stories harder to put down, and therefore more likely to be published and widely read.
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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