Creating Individual Voices and Fictional Settings That Feel Real

Join us Sunday, August 13, 2023, for a presentation by author Sarah Bewley.

Every character in your story/novel should have an individual voice. How do you find this voice and keep it consistent throughout your work? Voices with individual word choices and rhythms of speech are as important as giving your readers an image of that individual. How do you make those decisions? Are there any tricks to the trade?

When generating a fictional place to put your characters into, how do you anchor it to reality so that the reader feels as if the place can be found on a map? What if you want to write about a place unrecognizable to the people who live there? Bewley will discuss how the writer can manipulate both maps and landscapes yet create places that read as real.

She is a Florida mystery novelist and playwright who has had many “firsts.” She was the first woman to ever win the McClaren Comedy Prize at the Midland Community Theater in Midland, Texas. She was the first to win the Dayton Playhouse FutureFest new plays competition with a play that only received a staged reading and the first playwright to ever be asked to be the “Playwright in Residence” at the Alliance Repertory Company.

She also won the 2012 William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers for her work in progress, Burning Eden, which is now available. A book signing will follow her presentation.

Find out more about Bewley on her website: https://www.sarahbewley.com/