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Michael Pronko, "The Biggies: Character, Conflict, Symbols, and Setting in Narrative Fiction"
Japan Writers Conference 2025 | JWC2025
Keywords: fiction, novel, writing, technique, narrative

Novels create and dispense meaning through complex networks of interlocking elements, primarily character, conflict, symbols, and setting. Those elements are the best means a writer has of creating tension and meaning in a story. By amping those elements, the narrative flow strengthens. Writing for deeper engagement with readers involves subtly incorporating those elements while consciously evoking them during the writing process. This talk will focus on how to enhance the interplay between character, conflict, symbol, and setting to heighten suspense, deepen irony, add subtext, and manage the speed of the story. The talk will examine examples from novels and discuss the steps in the writing process that can make these separate elements more dynamic.

Michael Pronko is an award-winning author based in Tokyo. He has published six murder mysteries, four memoirs on Tokyo life, a guide to jazz in Japan, as well as articles for Newsweek Japan and Japan Times, among others. He is a professor of American Literature at Meiji Gakuin University.

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