Julia McCutchen interviews William Noble 
on Thursday 5 February
Showing offers images, presents a picture, provides a scene where things happen, characters interact and the story moves forward. Telling explains and lectures about what’s being shown, and when this happens, story progress comes to a halt. Images dry up, characters turn wooden, and the audience grows restless.
In the interview, we’ll touch on numerous ways a creative writer can “show” so the reader can see or hear images sparked by words on the page. It works the same with nonfiction as with fiction, with memoir or biography as with a novel or short story. The writer portrays or “shows,” and the reader sees and hears. We’ll discuss:
- opening a piece of writing so you “hook” the reader
- developing tension through conflict
- creating immediacy so “you are there!”
- valuing similes and metaphors
- advancing the story though dialogue
- appealing to and using the senses
William Noble has been called a “writer’s writer” because of his numerous books which explore the conscious elements of writing creatively. In all, he’s the author or co-author of twenty-three nonfiction books and hundreds of shorter works of fiction and nonfiction in such diverse publications as Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Salon.com. A practicing attorney for seven years, he gave up the law to devote full time to writing and teaching; since 1997, his biography has appeared in Who’s Who In America. For more information, see: www.williamparkernoble.com
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