Name: MICE Quotient
Start: 2026-04-18T09:45:00-0600
End: 2026-04-18T10:45:00-0600

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MICE Quotient

Saturday April 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am MDT

Pikes Peak/Royal Gorge

In this workshop, we learn about the simple organizational structure of the MICE Quotient. Pretty much every story, fictional or nonfictional, can be explained through this fairly simple organizational structure. Together we learn how to make this structure work for you when writing.

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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 →

Saturday April 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am MDT
Pikes Peak/Royal Gorge

Craft of Writing

Moderator Deb Courtney

Pikes Peak Writers Conference 2026

Mary Robinette Kowal

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Pikes Peak Writers Conference 2026

Mary Robinette Kowal

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