Winter School: Building Emotional Resonance
Date:
With:
Kate Cuthbert
Rating:
EMERGING
Summary:
A great plot, exotic setting, fantastic ideas – they all mean nothing if your reader doesn’t deeply feel all of the emotions in your story.
Details
This full day course will teach tips, styles, and techniques to build emotional resonance into any story.
You will learn
- how to fully develop characters
- how to use different narrative techniques
- different points-of-view: the who, how, and why
- how to identify and correct areas of ‘telling, not showing’
- how to build emotional tension and intensity into a manuscript.
About Kate Cuthbert
Kate Cuthbert is Managing Editor of Escape Publishing, Harlequin Australia's digital-first imprint. She is also an award-winning book reviewer and critic, a genre fiction advocate, and an in-demand moderator, presenter and teacher. She is currently pursuing a PhD examining rural settings in Australian popular fiction.
Read more about our other Winter School workshops:
Winter School: The Novel of Ideas, Monday 16 July
Winter School: Voice and Point of View, Tuesday 17 July
Winter School: Writing for the Education Market, Wednesday 18 July
Winter School: Problem Solving in Literary Fiction, Friday 20 July
Winter School: The Body, Writing, Saturday 21 July
Winter School: Finding the Loose Brick – Writer’s Block, Sunday 22 July
Winter School: Writing Grief and Trauma, Monday 23 July
Winter School: Who, What and Why – The Plotting Triangle, Tuesday 24 July
Winter School: Poetic Voice Masterclass, Wednesday 25 July
Winter School: Writing Long-Form Journalism, Thursday 26 July
Winter School: Making Social Media Work, Friday 27 July
Winter School: Series Fiction for Children, Saturday 28 July
Winter School: Writing the Self in Creative Non-Fiction, Sunday 29 July