Saturday, July 11, 2026, 10 a.m. to noon
Tension & Terror: Evoking Fear To Elevate Your Fiction
All over the world from, San Diego
Cost: $36 - $42
This interactive workshop will cover suspense and horror techniques to elevate your storytelling. Whether you write fantasy, literary fiction, sci-fi or other genres, you’ll learn strategies to evoke fear, build tension, create suspenseful scenes, deepen emotional stakes and sharpen pacing. You’ll also develop a compelling antagonist (human or monstrous) that haunts the reader long after the last page.
The workshop will cover:
-The value of suspense and horror
-Ways to evoke visceral reactions from your readers and heighten tension
-Strategies for pacing, foreshadowing and effective reveals
-How to balance dread and shock for maximum impact
-Methods for creating unforgettable monsters and villains