Seven Bridge Sessions
Presents
Look Who’s Talking:
Exploring Point of View in Fiction
With Hollis Shore
Saturday, February 20, 2016
10:30 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Thayer Memorial Library, Dexter Thayer Room
What if Boo Radley had
narrated To Kill A Mockingbird? Could
Bilbo have told the epic story of The
Lord of the Rings? How would Harry Potter’s story have changed had it been from
the megalomaniacal mind of Lord Voldemort.
Who tells the story is the most important choice a writer makes, affecting character,
language, plot, mood and atmosphere, theme and meaning, and, of course, the reader. A fictional narrator is a story’s lens, and the conscience and
consistent application of that lens is one of the most complex craft skills for
the writer to master.
In this class we will define
fictional point of view, look at some masterful (and not so masterful) examples
of point of view in fiction, and explore, through readings and exercises, the
way fictional perspective works in our own short stories and novels.
Hollis Shore is a co-founder of the Seven Bridge Writers’ Collaborative, a workshop
leader, and a writing mentor, and is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA in
Writing for Children and Young Adults program. She was the 2012-2014 Boston
Public Library Children’s Writer in Residence, and a winner of the PEN New
England Discovery Award for her novel, The
Curve of the World, out for submission shortly. Contact her at Hollisplus@gmail.com.
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