Make Your Readers Feel Your Story!

Make readers feel your story by crafting its atmosphere in a multilayered way from the sentences and words to the micro tension of your piece. In this 90-minute class, you’ll learn what contributes to a story’s atmosphere by analyzing published short stories and practice crafting different levels of atmosphere using exercises and prompts.

Crafting Your Story’s Atmosphere will cover what atmosphere is, how to identify it in stories, and exercises to help writers determine their story’s atmosphere and how to enhance it using specific techniques like word choice, syntax, and micro tension.

About Aigner Loren Wilson

Aigner Loren Wilson (she/her) is a writer with work in F&SF, Lightspeed Magazine, Monstrous Futures, WIRED, and more. She is a 2023 and 2024 Ignyte Finalist for best novelette and best critic and is a 2024 Hugo Award Winner for her work as a senior fiction editor for Strange Horizons.