Sunday, March 9, 2014
2:30-5:30 pm
The Ink Spot/Liberty Station
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Writers lead double lives. Both as participants and observers, we make notes and gather material. All life, it seems, is grist for our fiction. In this workshop, you’ll learn to mine your life for promising nuggets to work into fiction. Sifting through memories, you’ll recall details, alter facts, play “what if …?” and transform real people into fiction characters. This session will include exercises and idea starters to generate material for a short story or scene for a novel.
Working with this raw mosaic, you may want to create a short manuscript (up to 1500 words) which I’ll critique off-workshop for a small fee ($25). Sign up for the critique at the workshop through San Diego Writers, Ink.
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.