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Mapmaking: The Archeology of Setting Through a Different Lens: Advanced Novel Workshop Mapmaking: The Archeology of Setting So much of what we do as writers is about transport, about making the feeling for the reader that they have spent time in someone else’s shoes, skin, life. A story must deliver a firm sense of where we are in the world; be it familiar or not, we want readers to feel at home. A map is an interesting model when it comes to storytelling. It’s also a two dimensional representation of a fully living, breathing place, a public key to more private information. A road that leads to the house where you lived with your first wife is a road into a particular personal landscape: it’s impossible to drive down that road without thinking of—what? There are a thousand possible memories and emotions inherent in passing over this small piece of ground. Creating an indelible sense of place is important for all kinds of stories. Through a series of exercises, we will use this course to explore multidimensional maps—physical, experiential, and emotional—of a story in progress. This course is appropriate for fiction and nonfiction writers at any stage of their craft. Through a Different Lens: Advanced Novel Workshop The process of writing a novel is fundamentally different than the process of perfecting one. Perhaps, in a flush of energy and imagination, you have completed the daunting task of putting a long story to paper, but now it’s time to figure out what shape that story is capable of taking. To do that, you must step away from it. You must trick your eye into seeing it for the first time, for its strengths and its weaknesses. This is a workshop for writers who have completed a first or second draft of a novel and are looking to solve issues of pace, perspective, voice and texture. We will examine the editorial language of other art forms, principally photography and film, to find ways of tightening our own narratives, making richer landscapes, both physical and emotional, and better, sleeker stories. Participants should bring a synopsis of their novel and the first chapter to workshop. Biography
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