CraftFest Workshop Highlights

What I’m reading: The Rebellious Heiress, by Karla Darcy; Long Lost, by Linda Castillo

Today I’ll recap high points of three workshops I took as part of CraftFest.

I attended a session on handling back story given by Karen Dionne. She started out by telling us that a story requires that something happen; otherwise, it’s a vignette. We need to get the conflict onto the page immediately. Before the end of the first chapter, readers need to know the story problem(s) and something about the charact...