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Craft Conversations: Place: Setting Down Roots
May 15, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
$75Everything that happens in our lives and in our stories happens somewhere. Setting is a building block of fiction and memoir. During this discussion and workshop we will take a thorough look at how to build a vibrant and invigorating setting. Be it the cereal aisle of a grocery store, hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, a classroom, or in bed at night—settings are opportunities to reveal character, heighten theme, and create tone.
Through writing examples, prompts and ample discussion, you will leave this workshop with a firmer grip on how to enliven your work with setting, specifically:
- How the right detail can activate a setting
- How setting reflects/reveals interiority and puts pressure on our characters (even when the character is you!)
- How place can trigger memories and unlock slippery scenes to move your memoir forward
Come prepared to examine, to write, and to invigorate you work.
Access Program
We want our writing classes to be accessible to everyone, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. Our Access Program offers writing class registrations at a reduced rate. The access program for writing classes covers 60% of the class tuition. Most writing classses have at least one access spot available. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you would like to take a writing class at the Access Rate.