REGISTRATION IS CLOSED, WE HAVE FILLED THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF PARTICIPANT REGISTRATIONS

 


 

 

WRITING WITH SPLASH: ENRICHING YOUR WRITING WITH
SENSORY LANGUAGE WORKSHOP

 

REGISTRATION DATES: Now THROUGH May 17, 2023

WORKSHOP DATES: MAY 20 – JUNE 3, 2023

REGISTRATION FEE: $30

MAXIMUM OF 20 REGISTERED STUDENTS

 

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
Did you know that there are 7 senses?

Or wait is that 8?

At any rate, no matter how many there are, a great writer uses ALL of them in EVERY place possible in their writing.

In this course, you will learn about our senses, how they work, and when, where, and how to use them in your current WIP to set the scene, deepen emotion, and spark up the action. Many resources for describing sensory elements will be provided. Includes a sensory element critique of one chapter of your WIP.

This workshop lasts for two weeks and will include 8 text-based lessons and assignments. Lessons & Assignments will be posted on the following days: May 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, and June 2, 2023. Joan will respond to questions and comments during the workshop. She will also comment and make suggestions on assignments as needed. Commenting on this workshop will close beginning June 5, 2023. You will continue to have 30 days to access the workshop recording once commenting is closed, allowing you to visit the workshop, view the recordings, and download the handout. July 5, 2023, is the date this workshop will be archived and no longer accessible.

 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: JOAN KOSTER
Joan Bouza Koster is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction works in the fields of ethnography, education, anti-racism, and the arts. She holds a doctorate from Binghamton University and has published two textbooks on teaching the arts to young children: Growing Artists and Bringing Art into the Elementary Classroom. Her dissertation on Addressing Racism through Children’s Literature was named the most distinguished dissertation in 2005. Her short stories have appeared in several anthologies, and have received awards from Women on Writing, Stone Thread Publishing, Tryst Literary Magazine, and Winning Writers. Her first historical fiction novel was longlisted for the Mslexia Award. 

Under the pen name, Zara West, she has published the award-winning romantic thriller series The Skin Quartet. She is currently in the process of writing a historical fiction series about nineteenth-century women who never should have been forgotten. Book 1 That Dickinson Girl just released. 

She is also the author of the top-selling Write for Success series: Fast Draft Your Manuscript and Get It Done Now, Revise Your Draft and Make It Shine, Research Your Subject and Validate Your Writing, and Power Charge Your Language and Make It Sing. 

Joan blogs about women who should be remembered at JoanKoster.com, about everyday life during the Civil War at American Civil War Voice, about romance at Zara West Romance, about writing craft at Zara West’s Journal, and teaches numerous online writing courses. 

Joan is a fellow WFWA Member and you can find her at www.joankoster.com 

 

NOTE FROM THE WFWA WORKSHOP TEAM

This workshop is part of our new "BITE-SIZE LEARNING WORKSHOP" series which offers text-based learning, self-paced, and modest instructor interactions with a possible LIVE Q&A Session if needed (no LIVE Q&A will be included in the above-mentioned workshop because all questions will be answered during the workshop within the forum.

Most of our Bite-Size Learning Workshops (BSLW) will have no pre-recorded videos. These workshops were designed to offer "text-based" learning with lessons posted daily or almost daily in our workshop forum.

BSLWs were designed with all member budgets in mind and to further education opportunities. We also designed these workshops with busy lifestyles in mind. BSLWs are self-paced, meaning you visit the workshop forum on your terms, with no need to follow a rigid schedule. You interact with other workshop attendees and/or the instructor if you choose to. Our BSLWs on average will be one week in length, some a few days longer to fit in all the lessons if the instructor wishes to space things out a bit. Each workshop will also be available for a maximum of 30 days after the workshop closes to commenting beginning the morning after the workshop completion date (which will typically be a Sunday).

We will have one BSLW the last week of each month from February through November 2023.