Good to Bad: How to energize character voicing in nonfiction and personal narrative with JJ Lee
How to use self-deprecating humour, character flaw, and outsized personas to strengthen your writing
Time & Location
Sep 15, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Bowen Island, 430 Bowen Island Trunk Rd, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G0, Canada
About the Event
In the journey to create nonfiction work, there is a tendency to play it safe or protect the reputation of the writer. The motivation is fear-based. And it can be self-sabotaging and perhaps limit the potential audience for a nonfiction work. In this workshop, attendees will identify their fears, explore the parts of their personality they hide from their readers, and learn how to evaluate if they should share those parts of themselves and how to do so. The goal is to enliven narration, find voicing, and give space and credence to writers' true selves in the work rather than performing normative "literary" writing. Being "bad" can invigorate a project and make the manuscript a must-read. Raw, funny, heartbreaking, honest -- is the where this workshop strives to lead writers ... to be sensibly fearless.
About JJ Lee
JJ Lee is the author of The Measure Of A Man:…