Sarah’s upcoming master workshops at Fyrecon events
Sarah A. Hoyt has published over 30 novels with various publishers (and one indie.) She’s also published over 100 short stories in magazines such as Asimov’s and Analog’s and various anthologies. She writes in science fiction, fantasy, mystery and historical fiction.
She enjoys teaching writing because she has yet to meet a hopeful who has made all the mistakes she made while learning: uphill both ways.
Fyrecon Master Workshop
Alternate History
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Fyrecon Master Workshop
Short Stories
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Fyrecon Master Workshop
Alternate History
4 Hour Master Workshop for $79
(includes Whole Conference general admission to Fyrecon)
Class is limited to 18 students
Class Date
November 12, 2020, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM Mountain Time
At Fyrecon four
We all know history can turn on a dime. In an author’s hands we can re-examine events if they had gone a different way. Sarah will cover how to figure out what points in history to alter and what aspects to leave intact as emotional touchstones.
Come prepared with your ideas and learn to put the concepts into practice.
- Create an alternate history that gladdens the heart of the fans of the genre: ie. hitting historical touchstones, while still changing history.
- Pick the best inflection points
- Designing a story that keeps the high points while changing everything.
- Exercise creating a broad outline of historical change and identifying the stories in it.
Fyrecon Master Workshop
Short Stories
8 Hour Master Workshop for $159
(includes Whole Conference general admission to Fyrecon)
Class is limited to 18 students
Class Date
November 13 & 14, 2020, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM Mountain Time
At Fyrecon four
Short Story provides readers a view of a world in fewer words than a novel. This requires careful crafting and understanding the structure of a short story. Part of this is knowing what to include, hint at, or just leave out.
Day 1
- Brainstorming short story high concepts with teacher demonstration of turning high concepts into short stories ideas.
- Practicing turning your high concepts into short story ideas.
- Identifying different types of short stories including action, discovery, and emotive and how to lay out the general structure of each.
- Creating structures for your short story with group feedback
Day 2
- Learning how to hint at a larger world without weighing down your short stories.
- Practicing ways to hint at your world.
- Discussing how the first page’s promises build to the ending.
- Writing your short story’s first page.