Award-winning and New York Times bestselling thriller author John Gilstrap presents a seminar on the construction of intelligent suspense fiction. What makes for a strong plot? How do you take cardboard characters and give them life on the page? Through lively lectures, students get a peek at the skeleton that gives structure to the stories that keep us reading long into the night. (Target audience: writers’ groups, writing classes; 3-4 hours) There will be writing exercises, so plan accordingly.