Name: Indicator Lights: Fine Tuning the Past to Drive Your Story into the Future
Start: 2026-05-30T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-30T12:00:00-07:00
Location: The Brower Center, Tamalpais Room

Indicator Lights: Fine Tuning the Past to Drive Your Story into the Future

The past and the future are linked, nowhere more so than in story. In this session, we will play on the tightrope between past and present.
About this Event

Devi Laskar and Elizabeth Stark

The Brower Center - Tamalpais Room

The past and the future are linked, nowhere more so than in story. In this session, we will play on the tightrope between past and present, exploring how nailing the details of the past in a story builds a foundation for future worlds, allowing you to believably take the reader anywhere. We will also investigate the empowering role of the narrator, who often speaks from the future of the story. Through four sets of dynamic, generative exercises, attendees will leave the hour with a bevy of new tricks/tips and insights for their writing tool belts.

There will not be table space provided in our Writers' Workshop venues, so in addition to bringing paper and a pen, we recommend bringing a book or other hard surface to write on.