Video On Demand
With In this workshop, we investigated some of the many creative ways to play with time in your writing.
How do writers make use of Flashbacks, Flash forwards, Chronology, Stopped Time/Slow Motion, Compressed time/Summary, Recurrent time, and more? Looking at examples to help understand how writers effectively manipulate time, and then use a variety of writing exercises to practice these moves in our own work.
Tessa Fontaine is the author of THE ELECTRIC WOMAN: A MEMOIR IN DEATH-DEFYING ACTS, a New York Times Editors' Choice, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and best book of 2018 by Southern Living, Refinery29, Amazon Editors', and The New York Post. Other writing can be found in Outside, The New York Times, Glamour, AGNI, The Believer, LitHub, Creative Nonfiction, and more. Raised outside San Francisco, Tessa is a former professor and has taught in jails and prisons for five years. She co-founded and teaches the Accountability Workshops with writer and pal Annie Hartnett, and lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, daughter, goofy dog and sassy cat. THE RED GROVE is her first novel.
