Vivid scenes are essential to compelling narrative writing of any kind, but there’s an added layer of difficulty when the scene you’re trying to write is based on your own memory. What exactly was said? Was it spring or fall? How are you supposed to remember hand gestures from a conversation that happened 20 years ago? This session will cover the nuts and bolts of scene writing (description, setting, dialogue) as well as the larger question of where to draw the line between recreating and fabricating.
