Engines of Narrative | Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room

80 Days

teaming up with a couple Fellow-Critters for a three-month voyage through sharkish seas

Oct 30 • 

Elizabeth Gaffney

3

September 2025

All of It

Moby-Dick Day 2 | Introduce a symphony. Launch a ship. Grab a reader.

Sep 24 • 

Elizabeth Gaffney

4

Tell It Slant

Moby-Dick and the Inconspicuous Undermining of Authority

Sep 23 • 

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7

1

June 2025

Mosaics

bits beget monoliths

Jun 26 • 

Elizabeth Gaffney

1

Change

Remembering a friend and fomenter of change

Jun 19 • 

Elizabeth Gaffney

3

1

May 2025

Join me tonight at 6:30 pm (ET) for a Book Talk with debut authors Mo Ogrodnik and Zeeva Bukai

Readings, publishing journeys, a discussion the personal and political lives of women in the Middle East.

May 22 • 

Elizabeth Gaffney

Multidimensional Map: Part 2

Motifs and Refrains, Repetitions and Variations

May 5 • 

Elizabeth Gaffney

1

April 2025

Multidimensional Story Mapping, part 1

not your mother's beat sheet

Apr 28 • 

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3

March 2025

The Art of Integrating Process into Story

sometimes How-To tells a story better than What-Happens-Next

Mar 27 • 

Elizabeth Gaffney

5

Alternate Realities

deliria, intoxications, dreams, ghosts & the uncanny

Mar 18 • 

Elizabeth Gaffney

3

1

Point of View & Parallax

how narrators and personae determine narrative

Mar 10 • 

Elizabeth Gaffney

3

January 2025

Sentence Clinic

getting out the magnifying glass...

Jan 2 • 

Elizabeth Gaffney

1