Patrick was a roguish lad, alone in the world but for his mother. Come winter, he fueled their fire with palings stolen from their neighbor’s fences. The drunkard, Beavis, almost caught him last week, but Patrick was undeterred. He tore loose another paling and saw through the gap Beavis pounding his wife with gnarly fists. Patrick remembered then: another angry man, another frightened woman. He landed that paling not in his mother’s hearth but to Beavis’ head. As he helped the battered lady to her feet, he fancied he’d meted out justice and thought he’d like to see his father again.
The Power of Imagery with Nina Schuyler
September 12 & 13 on Zoom
Enrollment closes Thursday, September 3 at 7:00 PM Pacific
If your descriptions are vivid but your stories still feel thin, this workshop is for you.
Join award-winning author Nina Schuyler to learn the difference between description, which tells a reader what things look like, and imagery, which carries plot, character, and meaning at the same time.
In just two days, you'll learn to choose images that hold emotion without naming it, pair them so each one deepens the other, and build patterns that gather meaning as the story moves.
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