Learn to Create Better Scenes in Your Writing

Scene Creation

To be an effective fiction or creative non-fiction writer today, you need to write effective scenes. The vehicle for a writer to advance their plot and reveal character, the scene is cinematic writing and is defined by its continuous action regardless of that action's size, shape or intensity. Without the "Walk" of the scene, the reader is left with the "Talk" and the writer risks losing them to more interesting stories.

During this fifteen hour course, you'll examine:

1. story and scene structure;
2. techniques for bringing conflict and tension into the scene;
3. the purposes of a scene;
4. methods for beginning and ending a scene;
5. transitions between scenes; and
6. various writing tools that help advance your scene including but not limited to setting, dialogue, and character development

This course is a unique way of advancing your writing education as it focuses on story-telling from day one. Students can expect to learn many techniques in a fluid fashion that are normally compartmentalized in most introductory courses. The course is presented as a series of talks, discussions, exercises and critiqued writing assignments.

Dates: Saturdays, October 14, 21, and 28, 2017

Times: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm (1 hour break for lunch each day)

Location: 618 Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC

Cost: $175.00 Register before August 24, 2017 and receive $20 off your registration costs

For more information or to register, email. fvwschool@gmail.com