Fill your writer’s toolbox with skills that can be applied to many styles of writing encompassing both short story or book-length projects. Participants will learn how to bring their stories to life with writing exercises and discussion focusing on these key aspects of the craft:
* Gathering and using direct quotes and dialog.
* Weaving a sensual tapestry.
* Setting the scene.
* Injecting levity and humor.
* Researching and incorporating useful, interesting, and unique details that may include history, politics, science to enhance and inform.
* Presenting quirks, twists, and the unexpected.
Lisa Alpine is the author of Wild Life: Travel Adventures of a Worldly Woman and Exotic Life: Travel Tales of an Adventurous Woman (Best Women’s Adventure Memoir BAIPA Book Awards). She is the winner of many awards including the 2014 Solas Award silver medal for Best Travel Story of the Year for her story Fish Trader Ray. She is also the host of ”Titillating Tales Told by the Titans of Travel,” a literary series happening this fall at the Mill Valley Library. To find out more: https://www.lisaalpine.com
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* Gathering and using direct quotes and dialog.
* Weaving a sensual tapestry.
* Setting the scene.
* Injecting levity and humor.
* Researching and incorporating useful, interesting, and unique details that may include history, politics, science to enhance and inform.
* Presenting quirks, twists, and the unexpected.
Lisa Alpine is the author of Wild Life: Travel Adventures of a Worldly Woman and Exotic Life: Travel Tales of an Adventurous Woman (Best Women’s Adventure Memoir BAIPA Book Awards). She is the winner of many awards including the 2014 Solas Award silver medal for Best Travel Story of the Year for her story Fish Trader Ray. She is also the host of ”Titillating Tales Told by the Titans of Travel,” a literary series happening this fall at the Mill Valley Library. To find out more: https://www.lisaalpine.com
Fill your writer’s toolbox with skills that can be applied to many styles of writing encompassing both short story or book-length projects. Participants will learn how to bring their stories to life with writing exercises and discussion focusing on these key aspects of the craft:
* Gathering and using direct quotes and dialog.
* Weaving a sensual tapestry.
* Setting the scene.
* Injecting levity and humor.
* Researching and incorporating useful, interesting, and unique details that may include history, politics, science to enhance and inform.
* Presenting quirks, twists, and the unexpected.
Lisa Alpine is the author of Wild Life: Travel Adventures of a Worldly Woman and Exotic Life: Travel Tales of an Adventurous Woman (Best Women’s Adventure Memoir BAIPA Book Awards). She is the winner of many awards including the 2014 Solas Award silver medal for Best Travel Story of the Year for her story Fish Trader Ray. She is also the host of ”Titillating Tales Told by the Titans of Travel,” a literary series happening this fall at the Mill Valley Library. To find out more: https://www.lisaalpine.com
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* Gathering and using direct quotes and dialog.
* Weaving a sensual tapestry.
* Setting the scene.
* Injecting levity and humor.
* Researching and incorporating useful, interesting, and unique details that may include history, politics, science to enhance and inform.
* Presenting quirks, twists, and the unexpected.
Lisa Alpine is the author of Wild Life: Travel Adventures of a Worldly Woman and Exotic Life: Travel Tales of an Adventurous Woman (Best Women’s Adventure Memoir BAIPA Book Awards). She is the winner of many awards including the 2014 Solas Award silver medal for Best Travel Story of the Year for her story Fish Trader Ray. She is also the host of ”Titillating Tales Told by the Titans of Travel,” a literary series happening this fall at the Mill Valley Library. To find out more: https://www.lisaalpine.com
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2121 Bonar Street, Berkeley, CA 94702
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