Little Things Mean a Lot: Using Small Details for Great Effect

The way to move the reader from reading to experiencing your writing is through the effective use of detail. Not enough detail and you’re awash in a sea of generalities; too many and you must slog your way through seaweed to get to shore. But the right detail in the right place will bring the writing to life and include the reader in the world of the story. This workshop will address the use of the smallest of details that can bring the story to life through description, character, dialogue, and narrative, and will focus on how to select and render the telling detail. We’ll review how writers such as Joan Didion, Mary Karr, Margaret Atwood, and others make use of the smallest detail, and participants will have opportunities to try their hand at writing effective details through in-workshop exercises.

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$36.00 - Members $42.00 - Nonmembers

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