Sharing Their Time and Place: Imagination and Fact
You want to create a narrative – a memoir or a family story, the biography of someone dear or important to you or perhaps a novel.
You have identified your person or persons, but then you need to bring them to life, to make their dialogue believable, their thoughts and actions appropriate to their time and place. You must be able to understand the main characters, to climb in and inhabit them.
What do you know about the place where your person lived? Have you walked where s/he walked, eaten the local food, listened to the music? These things help you to vividly portray the texture of his or her life daily life. And what about the economic, social , and historical realities your character(s) experienced?
How do you show your readers that your character(s) lived in a specific time period, and the significance of that time to the entire narrative?
We will guide and discuss essential sources of information; ways to find data that describe the history and culture of your chosen location; the archives, histories, museums, online sites, and local experts you will need to access.
Then, through guided discussion and writing exercises, we will help you portray your unique, and therefore fascinating, characters.
Your narrative will be the overlain intersection of person, time and place.
Join us in our next workshop. Details and Registration here.
