Perhaps for too long, writing nature has been mostly a non-fiction pursuit. What happens when we use powerful images from our own woods, waters, and wildlife resources to enhance fiction? To develop either plot drama or respite? To craft plot twists delivered by weather or animals? To grow a character into someone unique as well as recognizable? I’ll share some of my own as well as others’ nature-text renderings, but also give participants a dry (very dry) short passage for them to bring to life. We can share our enhanced efforts. Please bring some paper, pen or pencil, and maybe even a book title or two to recommend.
About Sandy in her own words:
“I’ve been chased by moose, river otters, and angry partridges. My unsupervised childhood exploring Maine’s forests grew into a conservation career as well as my Mystery in Maine novels, Deadly Trespass and Deadly Turn. (And the upcoming Deadly Assault.) I’ve been a whitewater river outfitter, licensed Maine Guide, co-founder of a coalition to protect the Penobscot River from a dam, high school English teacher and director of the Maine Conservation School. I’ve been a finalist for a Maine Literary Award, the recipient of a national Mystery Writers of America McCloy award, and a national finalist in the Women’s Fiction Writers Association’s “Rising Star” competition. My two published murder mysteries are backstopped by the real murder of the north woods … I live on Moosehead Lake and am always hopeful for the loon chorus at the end of the day.”
This workshop is presented in partnership with The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation.
