Learn how Maggie O'Farrell gets maximum value from historical details in her novel The Marriage Portrait.

Learn how to use sensory details to bring important introspective moments alive for your readers and help them identify with your point-of-view character.

Learn how to use focalization to show the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters in a single scene with examples from Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait.

See how Rebecca Roanhorse uses time jumps to create suspense in Black Sun.

Learn how to maximize the drama of plot revelations by studying the techniques used by Laura Dave.

See how Casey McQuiston uses fictionalized primary materials to bring additional voices into I Kissed Shara Wheeler.

Learn the techniques Casey McQuiston uses to maximize the impact of dialogue in I Kissed Shara Wheeler.

How do you engage and disrupt genre tropes to hook your readers?

Is there a place for omniscient narration, associated closely with nineteenth-century novels, in a twenty-first-century literary landscape dominated by limited narration?

Why and how can you use multiple point-of-view narration in your novel? We’ll analyze NK Jemisin’s The City We Became to find out.

In the opening of The Dutch House, Ann Patchett strategically opens story questions, provides layers of narration, and makes setting details do double duty to draw in readers.

Salesses investigates why and how writing craft rules work, and gives concrete suggestions for how we might think about them differently.

How do you decide what point of view is best for your story, and how do you use point of view to deepen your reader’s engagement with your characters?

Highlights from the 2021 ACES conference.

Learn how Austen uses point of view to create drama and suspense in a scene without much external action.

Watch Austen trash her characters as only she can.

A close reading of how Austen uses the slipperiness of omniscient narration to her advantage.

Learn how Austen uses point of view to create drama and suspense in a scene without much external action.

Learn how Austen uses narrative layers to subtly savage the characters she wants readers to hate.

What can we learn from reading un-novel novels, like Jane Austen’s Persuasion?