Object, Action, Feeling: Strengthen Your Descriptions with Sophie Overett

Explore the different types of descriptive language, and how to use it to enrich your characters, action and worldbuilding.

From capturing settings to manipulating metaphors - sensory language to descriptive action - this workshop guides you through the process of writing descriptions that evoke emotion, reveal a character's inner workings, ground them in a time and place, and propel your story forwards.

Learning outcomes

As part of this workshop, you will learn to:

• Understand how descriptive language can evoke emotion, create context, and ground your story in time and place.

• Distinguish between sensory description, active description and contextual description.

• Utilise research to create richer descriptions.

• Write more authentic, impactful descriptions.

Format

This is an online workshop with a focus on craft; it will be hosted via Zoom. This workshop is suitable for fiction writers of all levels and writing backgrounds.
      

About Sophie

Sophie Overett is an award-winning author based in Melbourne, Australia. Her short stories have been published all over the world, and her debut novel, The Rabbits, was released in Australia by Penguin Random House in July 2021 and in the UK and US by Gallic Books in April 2023.

For more information about Queensland Writers Centre’s Program of Events and answers to FAQs, please visit: www.queenslandwriters.org.au/program-info