Chippewa Valley Book Festival: What is True in Fiction?

Every story starts with the seed of an idea and, with any luck, grows into something bigger. But regardless of what kind of fiction you write or read: space opera, medieval quest, dystopian future, romance, dystopian future space romance, one fact remains: there has to be a core truth, at the heart of your story.

At this workshop, discuss where story seeds come from and how they change before winding up on a shelf for sale, and explore how much of the writer finds its way onto the page and how writers decide what to keep and what to throw away.