ONLINE WEBINAR: It’s Elemental: Finding the Detail to Enhance Your Description
Date:
With:
Emily Bitto
Rating:
ALL
Summary:
A carefully chosen detail can do so much work; whether in fiction or non-fiction, it can build character and setting, evoke a host of symbolic resonances, and bring your reader into the world of your writing in a visceral, bodily sense. But getting the balance between too much detail and not enough is notoriously tricky. With a combination of tuition, examples and exercises, this webinar will help you achieve that balance in your own writing. If you haven't done a webinar before, it's easy to join in. A few days before the webinar, you will be emailed a link. Click on the link to register with the platform on which the webinar runs. Then on the day of the webinar, you will be emailed a second link, to join the actual webinar broadcast.
Details
You will learn:
- how to utilize detail more effectively in your writing
- the difference between concrete and abstract detail and why this is important
- to focus on the symbolic and thematic resonances of the details you choose
- to recognise the balance between too little and too much detail
- techniques that you can apply beyond the class to continue to improve your writing
About Emily Bitto
Emily Bitto is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Her debut novel, The Strays, won the 2015 Stella Prize. She has a Masters in Literary Studies and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne, and has been teaching creative writing for over a decade.
Venue:
Registration for this event ended on 14 October 2019 - 4:00