Class Description
Do you dread writing descriptions? If you want a better balance of dialogue, action, and setting in your writing, this one-day seminar will offer craft examples, writing exercises, and structures to help you set the scene. We'll take a look at some examples from writers such as N.K. Jemisin, Italo Calvino, Heather Fawcett, Pan Huiting, Leigh Bardugo, and others. We'll focus on using setting as a powerful tool to help readers engage in your writing, as well as a source of inspiration in the writing process itself. By the end of this seminar you'll have new sentence frames to kickstart scenes and different strategies for approaching a description of a new place in your work. We'll also learn strategies to weave setting into the narrative in order to build more three-dimensional scenes. Writers of fiction and nonfiction are welcome to attend.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
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This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.