SETTING: USE IT FOR MOOD, USE IT AS A CHARACTER, BUT USE IT WELL!

DECKLE EDGE WRITING CONFERENCE: WORKSHOP

SETTING: USE IT FOR MOOD, USE IT AS A CHARACTER, BUT USE IT WELL!

Instructor: Sasscer Hill

Sasscer reads FLAMINGO ROAD, due April 18, to mystery fan, Rosco

Friday February 24. Fifteen-person limit.Where: SC State Library, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, SC
Description:  Fiction has three main elements: plotting, character, and setting. Writers often spend hours plotting and creating characters, but sometimes pay little attention to setting. The place where your story unfolds provides the backdrop against which your drama plays out. With knowledge gained from a decade of mystery and suspense courses at Maryland’s Bethesda Writers’ Center, Hill will show how setting is more than a backdrop for action; it is an interactive part of your fictional world that saturates the story with mood, meaning, and thematic connotations. She will explore the importance of using setting as character, to indicate the passing of time, the importance of using the five senses, as well as other tools setting can provide to the writer. Participants in the workshop are encouraged (but not commanded) to bring one (1) sample paragraph of their own writing that shows setting, or to send two (2) such paragraphs at least four days ahead of time to Hill at Hillerroo@gmail.com. Your writing will be gently critiqued in a manner that highlights both its weaknesses and strengths. About the instructor: South Carolina author Sasscer Hill has written seven novels, many short stories, and has received multiple award nominations, including an Agatha, a Macavity, and the Dr. Tony Ryan Best in Racing Literature Award. One of her two completed manuscripts under contract with St. Martins Press, THE DARK SIDE OF TOWN, won First Place in the Carrie McCray 2015 Competition for First Chapter of a Novel, and was a runner up for the prestigious Claymore Award. Working with writers’ groups, she has critiqued thousands of pages of published authors work. Sasscer received a B.A. with honors in English Literature from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. For more information or to sign up, visit the conference here:   http://deckleedgesc.org/