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

with John F. Allen

2025-02-04 18:30:00 2025-02-04 20:00:00 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. East 38th Street Branch -

Tuesday, February 04
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-02-04 18:30:00 2025-02-04 20:00:00 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. East 38th Street 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 Skills | Writing | Meet an Author, Be an Author |

East 38th Street Branch

Phone: 317-275-4350

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Mon, Jun 29 10:00AM to 8:00PM
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Fri, Jul 03 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Jul 04 Closed
(Independence Day)
Sun, Jul 05 Closed

About the branch

The first library to serve the neighborhood opened in 1957 as the Emerson Branch. This frame house near East 38th Street and North Emerson Avenue soon became too small to meet the neighborhood's needs, leading to the construction of a 7,500-square-foot branch at the same location in 1962. The Emerson Branch closed its doors in 2003 when the current 16,000-square-foot library opened as the East Thirty-Eighth Street Branch.

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