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Writing a Sense of Place
Introduction
Welcome
Meet Your Tutor (1:47)
Module 1: Place-driven Writing
Introduction
Where Do You Come From?
Exercise: Where Do You Come From?
Putting Your Character into a Specific Place
Political, Cultural and Social Considerations
Exercise: Beginning with Place
Lawson vs Paterson
Crafting the Universal Through the Specific
A Third Way of Considering Plot
Exercise: Journeys and Strangers
Keep It Simple Stupid
Focus on Specific Details
Get More Specific
Exercise: Getting Specific
Real vs Imaginary Specificity
Module 2: Picking the Details
Introduction (4:10)
What is a ‘Telling’ Detail?
Exercise: Specificity and Connotation
Never Waste a Word
Literature vs Life
Exercise: Telling Details
Our Relationship with Place
Exercise: Harmony vs Conflict
Using Accumulation
Exercise: Showing Attitude
Module 3: Investing Place with Emotion
Introduction
Our Sense of Place Is Never Neutral
Showing vs Telling
Exercise: Investing Place with Emotion
Crackle Crackle Crackle
Symbolic and Suggestive Settings
Flying to the Moon
Exercise: Symbolic setting
War Without the War
Exercise: Getting Suggestive
Place as Voice, Style, Character
Examining Voice and Style
Exercise: Practising Voice
What’s Next?
Last Words (4:48)
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A Third Way of Considering Plot
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