Creative Writing Workshop: Elements: Earth

Creative Writing Podcast

A series of one hour workshops about the elements, inviting you to explore our shared understanding of these vital forces and how we can use them in creative writing.EarthWe’ll begin this series of four workshops by getting grounded. Earth nurtures the real world, but often in fiction caves and underground spaces are portals to other realms. In science fiction the literal Earth is sometimes a long-forgotten mythical home world. Gardeners coax life from the earth; it’s a substance with a strong and irresistible smell, so we’ll spend some time exploring describing earth through this usually under-used sense.And in the following weeks:AirWe breathe it, like Icarus we can fall to our deaths through it, we can feel flattened by a winter storm or sun-kissed by a summer breeze. We can’t see it, but can feel air moving around us all the time. Achieving our desires can make us feel lighter than air. But suffocation can kill us faster than almost anything else, and the body itself can deny us air through panic or anxiety attacks. We’ll explore breath as a way for characters to communicate and the noiseless sounds that can bring depth to dialogue.<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1323588852889?aff=oddtdtcreator" title="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1323588852889?aff=oddtdtcreator">Book the Air workshop.</a>FireWe can burn with passion, anger, humiliation, burn it all down, burn it to the ground, burn in hell. Stars burn, so do secret messages, love letters, photographs. A contradictory element, fire can mean warmth and comfort or absolute destruction. The simple striking of a match can be the beginning of a disaster.We’ll look at vivid visual description driven by powerful emotions.<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1323593386449?aff=oddtdtcreator" title="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1323593386449?aff=oddtdtcreator">Book the fire workshop.</a>WaterIt’s said to be the source of life, but we can die of thirst seeking it. From an ocean to a single drop, water can be both a powerful symbol and a strong motivator for characters.From ancient wells and springs, to rain, floods, and drowned landscapes, to the maddening dripping of a tap in a strange house, water can play a powerful role in creating landscapes and settings.<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1323594449629?aff=oddtdtcreator" title="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1323594449629?aff=oddtdtcreator">Book the Water workshop.</a> I run low cost, accessible writing workshops because it's fun, and I enjoy helping people find space for their creativity (and selfishly find it helps me create space for mine). To find out more about my writing and other projects visit<a href="https://www.roarcreativeproductions.com/" title="https://www.roarcreativeproductions.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> www.roarcreativeproductions.com</a>.

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