ONLINE WORKSHOP: How to Emotionally Engage Your Reader
Date:
With:
Emma Viskic
Rating:
ALL
Summary:
Great prose, action and ideas can all be for nothing if readers don’t care enough to keep turning the pages. In this workshop with award-winning author Emma Viskic, you will expand your knowledge of one of the most important elements of writing: creating an emotional connection with you readers. With practical exercises, tips and examples, you’ll leave this workshop with the tools necessary to create stories your reader will remember for a long time to come. For fiction and non-fiction, beginners to advanced.
Details
This workshop will take place online. Detailed instructions for participation will be provided.
You will learn:
- How to make your plot more engaging
- The art of subtext: Why letting readers ‘read between the lines’ is so important
- How to write immersive scenes
- How and when to ‘show’ and ‘tell’
- How to engage all the senses
About Emma Viskic
Emma Viskic’s critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic series has won numerous prizes, including a Ned Kelly Award and an unprecedented five Davitt Awards. Formerly a classical clarinettist, Emma’s musical career ranged from performing with José Carreras, to playing at an engagement party that ended in a brawl. She learned Australian sign language (Auslan) in order to write the character of Caleb, who is profoundly deaf. Emma lives in Naarm/Melbourne and is currently working on the fourth Caleb Zelic novel, Those Who Perish.
Not a Member?
If you’re purchasing a full price workshop at $215, consider a full price one-year membership ($75) plus member-priced workshop ($155) will cost just $230 and give you discounts on all our services plus a year's subscription to ‘The Victorian Writer’ magazine.
And if you have a concession card, a one-year membership ($55) plus member-concession workshop ($135) will cost you only $190.
Venue:
Australia
Contact:
Phone: 03 90947840
Email: [email protected]