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Writing Landscape in Short Fiction with Alice Bishop
Welcome
Introduction (3:14)
Structure, time required and materials needed
Meet Your Tutor: Alice Bishop
Part One
Introduction to thinking about landscape more broadly
Let’s ease into this by listening to a song
Exercise: I remember
Expanding your idea of what ‘landscape’ is in a short story
Writing Well
Exercise: Choose your landscape
Google Maps
Exercise: Seeing place
Natural landscape: a tool to show internal landscapes
Exercise: Chapters of your life
Annie Proulx
Part Two
Tools to bring your landscapes to life on the page (0:50)
The Tools
Colour
Exercise: Colouring your landscape
Imagery
Exercise: Thinking images
Specificity
Exercise: Learning from landscape (1:54)
Sensory Details
Exercise: Arriving at dawn
Economy
Exercise: Getting economical
Giving Shape to Short Fiction
Short story: 'Coppering' (2:56)
Heat Seeking
Exercise: Seeking heat
Part Three
Revision
Structural edit vs copy edit
The structural edit
The copy edit
Sentence & paragraph length
Economy when writing landscape
Avoiding pathos / heavy-handedness
Thinking about landscape and as an act of reportage
Letting your work sit (1:19)
Re-reading your work with a distant eye
Read, read, read.
Writing difficult landscapes and the climate crisis
Well-crafted examples of writing about landscape
Exercise: Remembering landscapes
Conclusion
Conclusion (1:31)
Feedback
Thank you
Short story: 'Coppering'
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