Workshop Description:
You want your setting to be both vivid and memorable, but you’re not sure just how it can be done? Then Time, Place and Beyond: Bring Your Setting To Life, is the class for you!
Over four weeks, I’ll show you how to plunge your reader into your setting and making it as real as your own backyard.
You’ll learn the basics of settings—time, place, and mood—and from there, you’ll discover how to research you story’s world.
Did you know that your setting is also a character in your story? I’ll show you how to give it a unique personality, just as you would your characters. We’ll also look at your settings history, geography, and customs.
And as an added bonus, you’ll learn how to name your fictional setting!
Included in the workshop is Your Settings Workbook. This useful tool has worksheets, checklists, and assignments that will aid you in creating sparkling dialogue for your characters.
Instructor’s Bio:
I believe I was destined to be interested in history. One of my distant ancestors, Thomas Aubert, reportedly sailed up the St. Lawrence River to discover Canada some 26 years before Jacques Cartier’s 1534 voyage. Another relative was a 17thCentury “King’s Girl,” one of a group of young unmarried girls sent to New France (now the province of Quebec) as brides for the habitants (settlers) there.
My passion for reading made me long to write books like the ones I enjoyed, and I tried penning sequels to my favorite Nancy Drew mysteries. Later, fancying myself a female version of Andrew Lloyd Weber, I drafted a musical set in Paris during WWII.
A former journalist and lifelong Celtophile, I enjoyed a previous career as a reporter/editor for a small chain of community newspapers before returning to my first love, romantic fiction. My stories usually include an Irish setting, hero or heroine, and sometimes all three.
I’m the author of The Claddagh Series, the Wild Geese Series, the Children of the Swan Series, and the Irish Hearts Series. A lifelong resident of Montreal, Canada, I still live there with my own Celtic hero. I have two adult children.