Sunday Webinar: Scene Stealing: Creating Textured Scenes Using Your Five Senses

Scene Stealing: Creating Textured Scenes Using Your Five Senses

Member Price: $15

Non-Member Price is $25

**This event will be recorded. Registrants can access the recording for 30 days.

Description:

Each scene in a memoir is an opportunity to immerse the reader in the fabric of your story.  Describing the action rather than summarizing allows the reader to come to their own conclusions. Learn how to use your five senses to craft scenes that fuel your reader’s imagination.

Outcomes: 

In this session, we will discover how you can use scenes to propel your story forward. We will use a range of props and tricks that will help you create vivid scenes filled with sensory detail. Techniques that you can use over and over again to help to jog your memory. We will also create mini outlines of scene and discuss choosing scenes that stay in your memoir.

Intended audience: 

Memoir and Creative Nonfiction writers of all levels.

Additional notes:

Writers should bring a notebook, pen, and something that has a strong scent such as a herb, a bottle of vanilla, or anything that conjures up a strong response and an image that is significant to them. 

Bio: 

S. Lesley Buxton’s essay “Talking to the Dead” was a finalist for a 2024 National Magazine award. She is the author of the award-winning memoir, One Strong Girl which was translated and published in France in 2022. Buxton's work has appeared in a variety of Canadian magazines and anthologies including: Hazlitt, Reader’s Digest, This Magazine and the Caitlin Press anthology, Love Me True. She is the coauthor of “Time to Wonder” with Sue Harper—a series of books for children about the museums of BC. Buxton has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Digital doors open at 1:55 pm, event starts at 2:00 pm