Thank you, Ivelisse! And ideas for future workshops (an invitation) ...
Hi Everyone,
For those of you who participated in Ivelisse’s workshop yesterday, I hope you enjoyed it—and found a way forward through the morass of structure. Please feel free to leave feedback for us in the comments section.
Also, I’m hoping to continue offering free online workshops for our community as we move ahead. What sorts of workshops would interest you? What do you need to particularly tackle? Soliciting any and all suggestions!
Also, I was thinking it might be fun to have a live, online reading this summer with our subscribers—to listen, or just participate—your choice! It could be a way to better get to know one another and what we’re working on. Let me know, too, if this might be of interest.
Lots of excitement to come … Stay tuned!
Abrazos,
Cristina
Loved the workshop, and yes, more workshops would be lovely. I would also love to join a summer reading. Late June or early July? Right now, I'm working on a novel, so any aspect of novel writing would be great. I still have quesitons about what makes a chapter. Then the balance between description, exposition, and moving the story forward with action. Scene building? Dialogue? I have the ideas for the book, but how do I craft that onto the page?
Ivelisse's exercises were helpful for writers struggling with an unfinished work. But they were equally valuable for me looking back at my published work. I am an intuitive writer who never outlines. I find that work best when I'm free to go in whatever direction my characters want to take me. However, once I capture the raw material of story, I then apply the craft necessary to make it literary narrative. In this workshop, I found myself superimposing her exercises over completed work and examining the structure pattern in retrospect. Eventhough there are many ways of structuring a narrative, I can see myself using this, even if I end up using another model before sending out my next novel,.