Writing and illustrating workshop: Create the setting for your story

Writing and illustrating workshop: Create the setting for your story

Venue:  Johannesburg (address to be sent to respondents)

Date: Tuesday 7 March 2017

Time:    10:00 – 15.00

Cost:  R50 SCBWI members, R100 non-members

RSVP: To Jenny at SCBWI.SA.Gauteng@mweb.co.za

About the event:

Donna Wyckoff-Wheeler, writing teacher, will facilitate the workshop on setting. Using movement to create setting – inspiration from the previous meeting. Elements of setting: physical and social geography, mood, season, ambiance, time (macro and micro aspects), people, objects, technology, lighting, relationships  etc.

About the facilitator:

Dr Donna Wyckoff-Wheeler, who offers courses in writing, is an alumnus of the Ohio State University, where she specialised in Applied English, folklore and narrative studies.

This event is for illustrators and writers.

Pre-Workshop Task – Bring to Workshop.

Use some aspect of “motion” to create a fragment of “setting” for a book entitled: The A-frame House on Baker Street.

Writers:  500 word outside limit, less is fine. Do not describe the house directly, although you may include mention of the house if you like (but this is not essential). The setting you create needs to use some concept of motion to support some aspect of the story at this particular point in the narrative – context, character, or plot. Remember, each of these elements involves multiple aspects of contextual details. Yes, I’m being vague just to allow you to play with the concepts. Work toward any genre (including poetry) and any target age. You don’t need to know the whole story at this point.

Illustrators: One art work (any medium or style, rough or finished) that might appear at some point in a book entitled: The A-frame House on Baker Street. Incorporate some idea of motion into the illustration. As you don’t know the “story” at this point, you can image any genre, length or age group you like.