Saturday October 22nd “S.M. Freedman”
WRITING FROM FEAR:
Tapping into Your Head-Monsters for Sci-Fi, Suspense and Thrillers.
While working on her first novel, The Faithful, S.M. Freedman was told time and again to write about what she knew. Well, she tried—and it even worked for the first five hundred words or so. But five hundred words does not a novel make, and she soon realized that this common nugget of wisdom wasn’t so wise, after all. In fact, it felt a lot like building a chain-link fence around her imagination—and topping it with electric wire. Upon completing her second novel, Impact Winter, Freedman realized she had tapped into something much more powerful than what she knew. She was writing about what she feared. In this workshop, Freedman will discuss the concept of writing from fear, and how forcing those fears to merge is the key to writing a novel that makes the heart pound.
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S.M. Freedman is a top-ranked Amazon author in the mystery, thriller, and suspense categories, and is a member of the WorldWiseWriters group. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, Freedman spent many years as a private investigator and business owner. She lives in Vancouver and Palm Springs with her husband, two children, and a giant orange cat. |
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