Learn to make your work compelling with the most important skill any writer can possess.
Successful writers make readers feel and intuit precisely what they want them to by using the technique of showing writing. No other element of craft promises this immediacy and power to bring a work to life. This is how to make a flat passage sing, how to gain your readers’ trust and emotional participation. Through exploration of compelling published examples, exercises, lively discussion, and inspiring instruction, you will learn to elevate your stories to submission-quality prose.
Live video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platform, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the start date or the day before, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it).
In this workshop you’ll:
- Learn to write in scenes
- Learn to dramatize rather than summarize
- Learn to create reader emotions
- Learn to present the evidence rather than tell
Time requirements
- N/A
Materials
- All reading materials will be provided.
Who should take this workshop?
- This workshop is designed to improve the skill of seasoned writers and demonstrate to new writers the power of showing rather than telling writing to elevate work to literary quality.
If you need an accommodation for this workshop, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.
