Kiran Kaur Saini teaches Everything You Wanted to Know About Interiority

Being able to reflect your character's interiority is a crucial skill in making that character feel believable and alive and allowing the reader feel they're with the character personally rather than watching from a distance. But what exactly is it? When should you use it? How much should there be? And how do you do it?

In this class, we'll take a comprehensive look at the different types of interiority and the many techniques and methods to achieve it, including looking at examples from authors in a variety of genres. We'll also discuss interiority in relation to point of view and authorial voice. Finally, we'll have a chance to try some of these techniques out in exercises and discuss them in the class.

Kiran Kaur Saini is a writer of literary and speculative fiction. She is a winner of the Henfield Prize for Fiction and a nominee for the Pushcart Prize and the Premio Ignotus. Her stories have appeared in Gulf Coast, Shenandoah, The Masters Review, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and other journals, and have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and anthologized in Best Small Fictions and collections in India and Brazil.