Writing with Splash: An Online Writing Workshop
I love teaching online writing workshops, and this coming month, May 2020, I will be giving one of my favorites.
Writing with Splash: Enriching Your Writing With Sensory Language, builds on my background in teaching the arts. The arts are a multi-sensory way of expressing our feelings and experiences. Fine art is visual and tactile. Music is movement and sound. Dance is movement and kinesthetics. Drama is both visual, auditory, and movement-based. All of them elicit emotion both from the creator and from the audience.
What could be more essential for a writer to master?
Eliciting emotion is exactly what we want to do in our writing no matter what genre we write. By consciously feathering in sensory images and experiences we can build character, set mood, increase tension. and heighten conflict. My online writing workshop will cover eight of the senses, how they work, and when, where and how to use them in your current WIP to set the scene, deepen emotion, and spark up action. Many resources for describing sensory elements will be provided.
- Lesson 1: Our Senses – How they work and why writers can’t leave them out
- Lesson 2: Our Basic Senses: Writing about touch
- Lesson 3: Our Basic Senses: Writing about smell
- Lesson 4: Our Basic Senses: Writing about taste
- Lesson 5: Our Basic Senses: Writing about sound
- Lesson 6: Our Basic Senses: Writing about vision
- Lesson 7: Going Beyond: Writing about the vestibular sense and kinesthetic sense
- Lesson 8: Putting it all together: Examples and cautions
- Bonus Materials
Extra – Every participant in this workshop will receive a read-through of their first three chapters, with special attention to the use of sensory language.
And what better time to take an online writing workshop, when many of us are all stuck inside?
You can sign up for my workshop, which is sponsored by my local RWA chapter, Southern Tier Authors of Romance, here. WRITING WITH SPLASH
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
Critique of Pure Reason
