Description
This class explores how crisis functions to unify narrative structure, worldbuilding, and character development. We will get into the nitty-gritty nuts and bolts of plot and touch on wider questions of art and politics in literature.
Consider how crisis plays out across our daily newsfeeds — problems that have been going on for decades suddenly explode into national consciousness because protest or politics brings them to the forefront with urgent narratives of crisis. In crafting literary arcs, we launch our characters head first into crisis, which can be giant and earth-shattering or intimate, an apocalypse or a break-up and everything in between.
About Daniel José Older
Daniel José Older, a lead story architect for Star Wars: The High Republic, is the New York Times best-selling author of the upcoming Young Adult fantasy novel Ballad & Dagger (book 1 of the Outlaw Saints series), the sci-fi adventure Flood City, the monthly comic series The High Republic Adventures. His other books include the historical fantasy series Dactyl Hill Squad, The Book of Lost Saints, the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, Star Wars: Last Shot, and the Young Adult series the Shadowshaper Cypher, including Shadowshaper, which was named one of the best fantasy books of all time by TIME magazine and one of Esquire’s 80 Books Every Person Should Read. He won the International Latino Book Award and has been nominated for the Kirkus Prize, The World Fantasy Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Locus, and the Mythopoeic Award. You can find him at https://www.danieljoseolder.net/ and https://danieljosolder.substack.com/
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