October 20 – 23, 2022

Pasadena, CA

Enrich Your Writing with Vivid Imagery

Start spicing up dull, lagging scenes in your novel. In this session you’ll learn how to transform serviceable sentences with arresting prose and sensory images that convey emotion and theme with subtlety. You’ll learn to mine the depths of your characters, and examine contemporary examples as you tease apart metaphor and simile. Writers will come away from this workshop with a visceral, clear understanding of “show, don’t tell. Beginning or Intermediate level (beginners may find they’re learning ‘up’ but it will still be helpful, and intermediate writers will just go deeper into their craft).