Orlando Word Lab

This is a writing workshop that will focus on learning a new technique or method each month. A guest speaker will share a sample of their work and then give a writing prompt for everyone to follow.

We'll all write for 30 minutes, and then share our work with others, and receive helpful suggestions about what to improve. Bring your laptops, tablets, or notebook and pen and a willingness to learn.

We will meet on the 4th Wednesday of every month.

This month, Yolanda Clark-Jackson will teach us about The Power of Scene and Setting: How to use setting to build scene in creative nonfiction

A character needs to be grounded in setting and when you are the main character of your story, the reader needs to be anchored in the moment with you. In this workshop, you learn the importance of the relationship between setting and a scene in creative nonfiction. You will also learn actionable ways to weave in setting and improve the scenes in your narrative nonfiction or fiction writing.

Yolande Clark-Jackson is a multi-disciplinary storyteller, children’s book author, and teaching artist. Her interest lies in using story and materials for remembering, reclaiming, and reimagining. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and is an award-winning personal essayist and author of the award-winning children’s book, Rocko's Big Launch. Her non-fiction essay “How You Get There” was among the top twelve awarded in the 2021 Winning Writers contest. Her nonfiction writing can be found in The HuffPost personal, Sisters Newsletter from AARP, Care.com, The University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now anthology.

If you want to join via Zoom, please go to https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pc-CgpjguG9bNGl6Pd2NAHAsShYH1IYf7