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Program

November 15th

Elizabeth MS Flynn w/a Eilis Flynn
Find Your Hot Premise

Via Zoom

Talk

We’ve all had that experience of stepping into an elevator or other confined space, realizing you’re in there with an editor or an agent, and he or she asks you what you’re working on. As you stammer out your longwinded answer (starting off with the classic “Well, it’s complicated”), the moment ends (i.e., the elevator door opens) and said editor or agent goes on his or her way. Could you have made use of that opportunity by blurting out the hot premise version of your synopsis? You betcha! This workshop is for everyone who’s been asked to boil down their story idea into one sentence, ten words or fewer. This is for everyone who’s had a hard time boiling their stories down into the simplest terms, a necessity in today’s short-attention-span era. Come on over and find out how you can make your premise double-take-worthy.

Bio

Elizabeth MS Flynn, who writes as Eilis Flynn, is a professional editor and has been for more than forty-eight years, editing topics as diverse as academia, technology, finance, genre fiction, and comic books. She has also written fiction in the form of comic book stories, romantic fantasies, and short stories. She has presented numerous workshops on topics ranging from creating a superheroine to creating your story world to folktales around the world (and more!) for thirty years. You can find her at emsflynn.com.