Event Title
Hands-on Writing Workshop, Part 1
Location
Benerd School of Education, Room 110C
Start Date
19-5-2019 10:00 AM
End Date
19-5-2019 11:15 AM
Description
People don’t turn to stories to experience what you, the writer, have experienced—or even what your characters experience. They read to have their own experience. Your job is to facilitate and enhance that experience, and you can’t do it with description. If you want to write strong fiction, the reader’s experience must be an emotional journey of his or her own. Learn and practice the techniques of ‘Emotioneering’ in this 2-part hands-on workshop. You’ll appreciate this workshop if you want to know:
- how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers
- the emotional modes of writing
- how readers read and how it affects writing
- the reader’s emotional journey
- the untold story of words
Hands-on Writing Workshop, Part 1
Benerd School of Education, Room 110C
People don’t turn to stories to experience what you, the writer, have experienced—or even what your characters experience. They read to have their own experience. Your job is to facilitate and enhance that experience, and you can’t do it with description. If you want to write strong fiction, the reader’s experience must be an emotional journey of his or her own. Learn and practice the techniques of ‘Emotioneering’ in this 2-part hands-on workshop. You’ll appreciate this workshop if you want to know:
- how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers
- the emotional modes of writing
- how readers read and how it affects writing
- the reader’s emotional journey
- the untold story of words
Comments
Nora Profit is an award winning journalist, feature writer, columnist, editor and author. She is a co-author in Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul and Chicken Soup: Living Your Dreams. Her own books include 10 Glaring Mistakes Amateur Writers Make and How to Avoid Them, The Ultimate Novel Writing Workbook and numerous how-to booklets on the craft of writing. She is also the founder and executive director of The Writing Loft, Northern California’s only creative writing school.