Fact or Fiction or Both: Writing Workshop

Description: Fiction is often filled with facts, while narrative nonfiction combines fact stitched together with imagination. Writers of both fiction and nonfiction need to be able to use both to the greatest effect.

From generating believable dialogue in a memoir to integrating real life events in fiction, incorporating both fact and fiction can take any manuscript to the next level.

Elena Hartwell Taylor: In addition to working as a developmental editor and writing coach, Elena is a published author. Her most recent novel, The Haunting of Emily Grace, launches Nov 4. Also under Elena Taylor, she writes the Sheriff Bet Rivers Mysteries. Under Elena Hartwell, she writes the Eddie Shoes Mysteries. Prior to writing novels, Elena worked extensively in the theater as a playwright, director, educator, and designer. She has taught writing and theatre courses at the college/university level for more than twenty years. She holds a PhD in dramatic theory and criticism, a Master of Education with an emphasis in teaching theatre, and a BA in Mass Media Communications and Theatre Arts. For more information about Elena, you can visit her website and read her blog about authors, new books, and the writing process.

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