Replay: Cara Black shares Five Things She's Learned about Crafting a Sense of Place
Check out the first five minutes of her recent class.
“A strong sense of place anchors readers and draws them into the story. If you’re a reader, this class will give you a behind-the-scenes, personal glimpse at the ways my mysteries are crafted and assembled.”
– Cara Black, Five Things I've Learned about Crafting a Sense of Place
Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 19 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, which is set in Paris Here’s the first five minutes of Cara’s two-hour class in which she shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that a strong sense of place anchors readers and draws them more fully into the story.
Five Things I've Learned about Crafting a Sense of Place offers invaluable strategies for bringing your story settings to life for readers. Cara shares how to thoroughly research locations prior to writing, how to identify vivid details to captivate your audience, and once these elements have been gathered how to most effectively engage the five senses to enhance and enrich your story's essential elements.
With a focus on the impact of location on themes, characters, plot, and narrative possibilities, this class equips writers of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and travel essays with the tools they need to anchor readers in their stories and craft more compelling narratives.
If you want to understand the essential role that place plays in every form of storytelling, this class is for you.
Cara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture—and invitations to be the Guest of Honor at conferences such as the Paris Polar Crime Festival and Left Coast Crime. With more than 400,000 books in print, the Aimée Leduc series has been translated into German, Norwegian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew.
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