Voice Lessons: Place as Character

Sunday, April 27, 2014
2:30-5:30 pm
The Ink Spot/Liberty Station

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IMG_1298Place can have a role in fiction and nonfiction as memorable as any of the characters who populate the story. Think of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha, Dillard’s Tinker Creek, Steinbeck’s California. Every human event happens somewhere and the reader wants to know what that somewhere is like. Place grounds the story, sets the scene and creates the background where story plays out. Place influences how characters speak, eat and make love; it shapes their beliefs, values and moral choices. History and memory are rooted in place and the map our of psyche is found in the geography or our past.

This workshop will explore the role of place in writing. We’ll look at how it influences the voice and perspective of the writer and discuss ways for the writer to render real or fictional place through description, detail, and imagery.

In this series of monthly workshops, we’ll explore the many and varied aspects of creative writing from the writer’s voice (what is it, how do you find it, and what do you do with it once you’ve discovered it?) to elements of style (sentences and other structures, telling details, show and tell), to questions of craft (plot vs. character, description vs. action, narrative strategies) and other literary nooks and crannies. Each workshop will include examples from noted writers, in-class exercises, lively dialogue exchanges and an opportunity to work with other writers in a supportive, friendly community.

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