Learn how to make your readers experience your stories as if they were there.
Skilled writers make readers feel and intuit exactly 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 exercises, lively discussion, and inspiring instruction, you will learn to elevate your stories to submission-quality prose. This workshop is for any writer seeking to make stories more potent, compelling, easily felt, and memorably visualized.
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:
- How to make the reader feel what you want him to feel, experience compelling moments in your story as if he were there, and how to intuit from clues what you want him to know without being told.
- How to use language as a tool of power and specificity.
Time requirements
- No advanced reading required.
Materials
- No materials required.
Who should take this workshop?
- This workshop is for any writer seeking to make stories more potent, compelling, easily felt, and memorably visualized. In short, any writer hoping to be published should take this workshop.
If you need an accommodation for this workshop, please contact us at access@{{{{homeurl_non_www}}}}. We will attempt to fulfill all requests, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.
