The Character Problem
Rebecca Pickens delivers a craft-focused exploration of how to create emotionally complex characters with contradiction, interiority, blind spots, and competing desires across fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction.
Where to Begin: Building a Strong Foundation for Your Novel or Memoir
Rebecca Pickens delivers a practical lecture helping physicians identify the right writing project, shape their experiences into story, and begin with greater focus, direction, and purpose.
The Path to Publication
Rebecca Pickens explores traditional publishing, hybrid presses, self-publishing, and querying to help writers navigate the publishing process with greater confidence and strategy.
The Revision That Changes Everything: Beyond Surface-Level Edits
Rebecca Pickens provides revision tools and techniques that help writers identify what needs fixing so they can revise with greater efficiency and precision.
Building a Story That Pulls Readers Forward: Creating Momentum, Consequence, and Tension
Rebecca Pickens delivers a craft-focused lecture explores how to build stories with momentum, tension, and consequence that hold together structurally and keep readers emotionally invested.