Name: Clocking In: How to Write about Jobs (V)
Start: 2024-06-08T09:00:00-0600
End: 2024-06-08T11:00:00-0600

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Clocking In: How to Write about Jobs (V)

Mortician. Rodeo Clown. Stormchaser. We've all had unique jobs that dramatically affected the framework through which we experience the world. This holds doubly true for characters' perspectives. What are the differences in how a professional tarot reader examines an oak tree versus a microbiologist intern? In this seminar, we'll read and discuss examples of writers who write jobs that influence character development, voice, and language. And we’ll write about our characters’ jobs too. You'll soon discover how much your characters' jobs matter to the heart of their stories.

Speakers

Alexander Lumans

Instructor

Alexander Lumans was awarded a 2018 NEA Creative Writing Grant in Fiction. He was also awarded a fellowship to the 2015 Arctic Circle Residency and was the Spring 2014 Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Paris Review, Electric... Read More →

Saturday June 8, 2024 9:00am - 11:00am MDT
Zoom

Fiction Nonfiction/Memoir

Type Craft Seminar

Lit Fest 2024

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Alexander Lumans