You can say the sun shines, but can you show the sun shining and make your reader feel the warmth on their skin?
Author Laurel Thomas joined us for our November OCFW meeting. She showed us how to build a palette of images that capture a picture and invite the reader inside our stories. At the end of her lesson, we tried our hand at creating an image with nothing but our words and imagination.
For me, I learned a lot about how to immerse the reader into the story. How to create the scene with visuals that induce feeling.
Laurel is a writer's coach and novelist. She's written for inspirational magazines, ghosted nonfiction, and is the author of River's Call, When Stars Brush Earth, and Stones of Promise.
