All Details Are Not Equal: The Power of Movement and Desire in Literary Description

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Nonfiction & Fiction

Readers crave vibrant descriptions of people and places, but all details are not equal! Active, emotion-based details can advance your story’s deepest, most compelling currents.

Readers crave vivid descriptions of people and places, carefully crafted particulars that allow a story—memoir or fiction—to unfurl into vivid reality on the page. But all details are not equal! Description that doesn’t advance the emotional river of a story can have unintended consequences, slowing the pace and clogging the reader’s mind with unneeded flotsam.

Beyond “showing vs. telling,” this webinar will examine how writers can use active, emotion-based detail to supercharge not just the “vividness” of a story, but the underlying yearning that shapes a memoir or novel’s deepest, most compelling currents.

In this webinar, you will:

• DISCOVER the key elements powering vivid description: Context, Movement, and Desire
• EXPLORE which details of character or setting can move the emotional story forward, and which details merely slow things down
• LEARN to translate simple character gestures into intimate, compelling moments that advance the deepest currents of your story

This webinar is ideal for:

• Writers who are uncertain which descriptions are necessary, and when there is too little or too much.
• Writers who want to use character description to shape a story’s deepest, most compelling currents.
• Writers who’d like their work to capture attention and quickly engage agents, editors and readers.
• Writers who want a deeper, more sophisticated understanding of showing and telling

Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔

ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER

Dinty W. Moore is author of the memoirs Between Panic & Desire and To Hell With It, and the writing guides Crafting the Personal Essay and The Mindful Writer, among numerous other books. He has published essays and stories in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Short Reads, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity, the journal of flash nonfiction, and has taught nonfiction writing for more than 30 years, in workshops across the United States as well as in Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy.

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