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How to Build Suspense - Keeping Your Readers Guessing on the Edge of Their Seats

with John F. Allen

2025-01-28 18:00:00 2025-01-28 19:30:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis How to Build Suspense - Keeping Your Readers Guessing on the Edge of Their Seats Learn about world building processes and how to implement them in your writing. Create, develop, and establish brave, exciting, and imaginative new worlds for stories. West Perry Branch -

Tuesday, January 28
6:00pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-01-28 18:00:00 2025-01-28 19:30:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis How to Build Suspense - Keeping Your Readers Guessing on the Edge of Their Seats Learn about world building processes and how to implement them in your writing. Create, develop, and establish brave, exciting, and imaginative new worlds for stories. West Perry Branch -

Learn about world building processes and how to implement them in your writing. Create, develop, and establish brave, exciting, and imaginative new worlds for stories.

Students will learn to identify and to apply a wide range of techniques and tools to create, develop and establish brave, exciting, and imaginative new worlds for their stories. They will also learn how to use settings as a character in their stories and receive tips on how to maintain continuity in their writing.

This workshop is presented in partnership with the Indiana Writers Center. Check out other writing workshops at library branches this spring!

Get thinking about suspense with IndyPL Recommends Best of Suspense, Mystery, & Horror, or consider these Best Books for the Aspiring Novelist

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Class/Workshop |

TAGS: | Writing | Meet an Author, Be an Author |

West Perry Branch


Hours
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Mon, May 25 Closed
(Memorial Day)
Tue, May 26 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, May 27 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, May 28 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, May 29 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, May 30 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, May 31 Closed

About the branch

Opened in 2021, this branch encompasses 24,000-square-feet and fills a service gap in the growing Perry Township community. Patrons will find a varied collection of materials at the branch, including materials in Spanish and children’s Burmese language materials to support the diverse community of immigrants who live on Indy’s south side.

Amenities include a community meeting room that can hold 203 guests, a fireplace, a marketplace, computer stations, a children's and teen zone, and an inviting outdoor patio space.

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Sat, May 30, 12:00pm - 2:00pm

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Thu, Jun 04, 5:00pm - 5:45pm

Fri, Jun 05, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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