Opening Gambits – SOLD OUT (Join the waitlist)
Agents, editors, and more importantly, readers, are often turned on or off by the first chapter, even the first page. In this workshop we’ll discuss writing vs. storytelling, analyze opening scenes, focus on immersing the reader, sinking story hooks, banking and spending emotional currency, creating likable protagonists (or loveable anti-heroes), and examine the types of contracts we make with readers in the first pages of a story. All genres of fiction are welcome in this generative workshop.
Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer, Min Chung, who emigrated from Hoiping, China to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to win the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Jamie’s latest novel, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, was an instant NYT bestseller. His work has been translated into 35 languages. (He’s still holding out for Klingon, because that’s when you know you’ve made it).
Learn more: jamieford.com