Name: Please Murder My Darlings: Or, How to Make Writing Fun Again
Start: 2027-01-17T10:45:00-0500
End: 2027-01-17T11:45:00-0500

Please Murder My Darlings: Or, How to Make Writing Fun Again

Sunday January 17, 2027 10:45am - 11:45am EST

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You’re fifty pages in and don’t know where to go next. Or you’ve written the first page — twenty-five times. Getting stuck is an inevitable part of the writing process, but working with a writing partner can help you move on better and faster than you can alone. Join authors and longtime writing partners Ilyon Woo and Rachel Kousser for a discussion of the specific strategies they’ve road-tested together to overcome writer’s block, build suspense, murder each other’s darlings, and more. We’ll share how we played with screenwriting and other techniques outside our comfort zones to reach wider audiences...starting with each other. You’ll leave with creative methods for finding and developing your writing partnership, and becoming stronger writers together.

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Rachel Kousser

ALEXANDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD: THE FORGOTTEN FINAL YEARS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, Author

Rachel Kousser writes and teaches about Alexander the Great, ancient iconoclasm, and the representation of gender and power in the Mediterranean world. For her work, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Getty Research Institute, and the Center... Read More →

Ilyon Woo

MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE, Author

Ilyon Woo is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom; and The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. She and her writing partner, Rachel Kousser, met as undergraduates at Yale... Read More →

Sunday January 17, 2027 10:45am - 11:45am EST
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