Events
Writers on the Rock: Northeast Denver (Power of the Pen), 10 am, Saturday, August 19, 2017.
I will be teaching The Writer's Toolkit: Essential Tools for the Fiction Writer at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, August 19, 2017 at the East Denver Creatives (the Writers on the Rock Northeast Denver group) meeting. We will be covering three fiction essentials: point of view, writing in scene, and character development. If you don't think you need this you probably do! Free and open to the public. We meet at the Mental Health Center of Denver's Dahlia Campus at 3401 Eudora St., Denver, Co 80205. (Please note this is not related to the Mental Health Center in any way -- we just rent space in their very beautiful facility.)
Two important notes!
1) If you plan to attend, it will be very helpful if you R.S.V.P. to me (use the contact tab above if you don't already have my email address) so we can arrange for enough seats.
2) There is advance homework! Please read the attached short story before class on August 19, and come prepared to answer the following questions. Click here for a link to the story, “White Angel,” by Michael Cunningham. Please be prepared to orally discuss the questions below (you do not need to hand anything in):
Two important notes!
1) If you plan to attend, it will be very helpful if you R.S.V.P. to me (use the contact tab above if you don't already have my email address) so we can arrange for enough seats.
2) There is advance homework! Please read the attached short story before class on August 19, and come prepared to answer the following questions. Click here for a link to the story, “White Angel,” by Michael Cunningham. Please be prepared to orally discuss the questions below (you do not need to hand anything in):
- Who is the narrator?
- From whose point of view (POV) is the story told?
- In what “person” is the story told?
- Who is the story about?
- What's the difference between POV (Q.2 above) and “person” (Q.3 above)?
- What would happen if it were told from a different POV?
- What verb tense is used to tell the story?
- Please mark the scene breaks, and be ready to describe each scene (in 1 sentence or phrase).
- What creates tension in the story?
- What else do you notice about the story?
"Swindled" Launched!
Having been unwillingly and unwittingly thrust to the center of the conservation easement scandal in Colorado, I am frequently asked by friends to tell the story. It is a long and complicated story, and the main reason I'm telling it -- and telling it in serialized blog form -- is to give other landowners a voice and a discussion platform. There are an estimated 600 landowners whose cases have not yet been heard, and who are still waiting for justice. This blog's for them!
“Swindled,” debuted on June 28, 2016.
Just click on the "Blog: Swindled" tab above.
#swindled #conservationeasements
http://www.sharoncairnsmann.com/blog-swindled/
“Swindled,” debuted on June 28, 2016.
Just click on the "Blog: Swindled" tab above.
#swindled #conservationeasements
http://www.sharoncairnsmann.com/blog-swindled/
