Name: The Importance of Gaps (V)
Start: 2025-06-06T16:00:00-0600
End: 2025-06-06T18:00:00-0600

Friday June 6, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT

The secret to a great story is not plot or fantastic characters but leaving gaps—that is, crafting spaces to allow the reader to lean in or enter your story to make connections on their own. In this seminar, we’ll examine techniques for crafting action, gestures, and dialogue that help readers take leaps with you or your characters. Plan to practice writing.

Speakers

Karen Auvinen

Instructor

Karen Auvinen (she/her/hers) is poet, mountain woman, life-long westerner, writer, and the author of the memoir Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living, a finalist for the 2019 Colorado Book Award. Her body of work traverses the intersection of landscape and place, examining... Read More →

Friday June 6, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Zoom

Fiction Nonfiction/Memoir

Audience Craft Seminar

Lit Fest 2025

Karen Auvinen

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