Name: Middles and Try-Fail Cycles
Start: 2026-04-17T16:45:00-0600
End: 2026-04-17T17:45:00-0600

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Middles and Try-Fail Cycles

Friday April 17, 2026 4:45pm - 5:45pm MDT

Douglas

Middles are often seen as the sagging portion of any story line, when in reality most of any piece of writing is spent in the middle. In this workshop, we learn how to set up and depict interesting try-fail cycles for your characters.

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Mary Robinette Kowal

Keynote

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winning alternate history novel The Calculating Stars, the first book in the Lady Astronaut series which continues in 2025 with The Martian Contingency. She is also the author of The Glamourist Histories series, Ghost... Read More →

Friday April 17, 2026 4:45pm - 5:45pm MDT
Douglas

Craft of Writing

Moderator Pam McCutcheon

Pikes Peak Writers Conference 2026

Mary Robinette Kowal

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Pikes Peak Writers Conference 2026

Mary Robinette Kowal

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