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. About 15 minutes before your class is scheduled to begin, you'll receive an email from your instructor with a link to join the class meeting!
Zoom Participation:
Students are not required to turn their camera on, but are encouraged to participate any way they feel comfortable through functions such as the live chat, emoji reactions, and unmuting the microphone. Learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
We ask that instructors enable closed captioning and send a transcript of the session after class. You can also enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting. If your instructor forgets to send the transcript, just send ’em an email!