- Persuasive Settings: Why Description Matters
- Writing a great short story is like conveying a dream. As we will see from studying one famous master, a «persuasive» setting is necessary in order to build mood, character, and even plot.
- If You Build It, They Will Come
- Pack your fiction with «vitamin-rich» detail. Looking at the work of both masters and students, we will discuss how funny, meaningful, and powerful details can be.
- Credibility and Research
- Create settings both familiar and unfamiliar to you, while avoiding common missteps. You will be guided through several meditation exercises as you practice «imaginative research».
- Realities
- Setting and description works in realist and non-realist fiction, as well as across literary genres. Consider how to write about your own «primal landscape».
