How Memorable Setting Can Advance Plot, Reveal Character, and Echo Theme
On November 11 at 2 pm, I’ll be leading a workshop on setting at the California Writers Club Marin monthly meeting at Book Passage.
The best and most memorable setting is more than a pretty, or gritty description. It’s lean and strong because it’s working two or more jobs. It’s advancing the plot, or revealing character, or echoing theme, or even doing all three.
This is a hands-on workshop. After we review the many different ways setting can strengthen your story, we’ll put what we learned into practice in several writing exercise. (If you have some setting passages you’d like to share, bring them.)
Relevant for fiction writers as well as narrative nonfiction writers and memoirists.
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—Becky Parker Geist, BAIPA Board of Directors, President
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Current BAIPA members do not need to register for our monthly meetings. The night before the meetings, they will receive the Zoom info. For workshop registration, members can buy a member ticket and will receive the Zoom info the night before the meetings, as well as in the confirmation email.
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