About this Talk
Author of This Vicious Grace, part dark YA fantasy and part rom com, Emily Thiede, discusses the role of mystery and POV in her writing. She describes her draft-layering approach to writing in detail, discussing how she builds in variety and increases the pacing in a cumulative process of revising and editing.
Learn, too, why she focuses on characters, not on a plot structure, as her starting point, and how this helps her create dramatic developments in her story that leave readers eager to follow along.