How to Work with Narrative Time

In our novels, we control how quickly or slowly time passes for our readers. We can compress several decades of events into a couple of paragraphs, or we can let an entire chapter linger on a single scene. Managing narrative time is an essential (and often overlooked) storytelling skill. In this seminar, we’ll hone that skill by deepening our understanding of sequence, pacing, and flashback, among other temporal devices, while also learning how we might orchestrate different “time signatures” to enhance both meaning and beauty in our writing.