Description
The best way to set your writing apart from the legion of others is to tell the story that only you can tell—one uniquely steeped in your personal insights, perspective, and knowledge.
“Write what you know,” an oft-repeated phrase, is an oversimplification, particularly if we hope to have long and varied careers. Instead, we must learn how to find those seeds of ideas in our personal lives and leverage our imaginations to amplify them into fully-fledged stories that can soar. Everyone’s life experience contains these gems of ideas, yet many of us are not sure how to leverage these ideas into fiction.
In this workshop, we will explore how to travel down the path of our personal histories and experiences to mine for nuggets of ideas. With these gems in hand, we’ll learn how to expand them into fuller concepts using several craft techniques. We’ll learn how to build outwards from a single question into a robust narrative, how to add subplots and secondary characters to round out our stories, and how to weave together the threads of our stories to create a more layered and complex narrative.
With these exercises and techniques in hand, we can begin to craft stories unique to us and our voices—narratives that will make us distinct and appealing in an over-crowded marketplace.
