6/3/2023 0 Comments The Warehouse by Rob HartIt sold in a pre-empt to Crown at Penguin Random House. Rob Hart is the author of The Warehouse, which imagines a world where one company dominates the online retail economy and puts its workers into dormitory housing, so they can better fulfill the needs of consumers. Some of the concepts here were covered in Rob’s previous LitReactor class, The Big Idea. You can come in with a work in progress, or completely cold. This class is open to all skill levels, and includes written lectures and homework assignments, to be critiqued by both Rob and the class. The focus of this four-week workshop is to find ways to look for that code, and build a process around it, with an eye toward crafting stories that are commercially appealing. And they’ll inform your work going forward, helping you to craft the kinds of stories that demand to be read. Basic tenets that, once you see them, you can never un-see them. But there’s a source code to telling a good story. Sure, there’s plenty of art in the machine, and everyone’s process is different. It’s about mechanics: pacing, character, dialogue, worldbuilding. That comes from a place that’s hard to quantify. How to craft a languid, luminous sentence that lodges itself in a reader’s heart? Whew.
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