The Speed of Time in Narrative
WRITING 714.10E
Learn to bend time to your will in this workshop focused on how to render the passage of time in writing.
What you can learn.
- Look at published examples of different ways writers employ condensing or expanding time in their writing
- Understand what craft techniques you can use to adapt time to your own work for maximum impact on the reader
- Practice writing your own time-sensitive narratives
About this course:
From summaries covering centuries to slow-motion sequences that represent seconds, from real time to no time, the clock and the calendar are handled in different ways on the page. In this 3-hour seminar we will look at representative samples of time in all its variability, and we’ll write our own time-sensitive narratives.Contact Us
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