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10 Prompts To Deepen Your Writing We’ll use other art forms to explore what’s beneath the surface — learning to layer emotion, theme, and universal truths into stories that will matter to a reader. This workshop is designed to inspire you to deepen your writing with emotional weight. By examining your response to a variety of visual and musical prompts including painting, sculpture, photography, short film, dance, and music video, we’ll learn to notice underlying emotion. Since everything we create is a representation of something larger, we’ll practice translating your feelings to the page so that they can live in your characters and resonate with readers. Participants will leave with fresh ideas for their memoir and fiction, and the confidence to move beyond surface-level writing.In this workshop you'll learn to:
Create underlying emotion​
Make the ordinary extraordinary
Define your story’s intention and purpose
Find meaningful connections ​
*This workshop is open to all writers, especially fiction and memoir writers, who are interested in deepening their ideas and creating emotional resonance on the page.
10 Prompts to Kickstart Your Writing in the New Year
We’ll use other art forms to explore what’s beneath the surface — learning to layer emotion, theme, and universal truths into stories that will resonate with readers.
Description:
This workshop is designed to inspire you to deepen your writing with emotional weight. By examining your response to a variety of visual and musical prompts, including painting, sculpture, photography, short films, and music videos, we’ll learn to notice underlying emotions. Since everything we create is a representation of something larger, we’ll practice translating your feelings to the page so that they can live in your characters and resonate with readers. Participants will leave with fresh ideas for their memoir and fiction and the confidence to move beyond surface-level writing.
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In this workshop you’ll learn:
• Creating underlying emotion
• Making the ordinary extraordinary
• Defining your story’s intention and purpose
• Finding meaningful connections
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Who is this workshop for:
This workshop is open to all writers, especially fiction and memoir writers, who are interested in deepening their ideas and creating emotional resonance on the page.
Making Your Characters Matter
Dive deep into character creation to craft compelling fiction and memoir.
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Description:
At the core of every good tale is a character with whom the reader wants to spend time. Discover how to move beyond the superficial and cliché, crafting characters who invite the reader to explore the human condition. Illustrations and exercises will help you uncover your character's inner values (in memoir, that character is you) and present them in ways that are integral to your story. We will examine effective techniques for depicting character yearning, physical description, and internal conflict and come to understand what influences reader empathy. This workshop will benefit those writing a novel, short story, or memoir.
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In this workshop you’ll learn:
• Moving beyond cliché
• Understanding yearning
• Conveying Internal Wrestling and Character Transformation
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Who is this workshop for:
This workshop is open to all writers, especially fiction and memoir writers, who are interested in creating characters with whom readers will engage.