Psychic Distance Workshop

Over the years Emma has found that psychic distance – often called narrative distance or emotional distance – is a game-changer for her creative writing students. There may be times you want the reader to be deeply involved in your protagonists’ subjective perceptions, and other times to have a wider and more objective experience of what’s happening in your story. But when should you do which, and how do you do it?

By bringing together point-of-view, showing and telling, and narrative voice into a single, simple question, psychic distance can transform your storytelling. In this practical session we’ll start by exploring how psychic distance works, try out the new tool, and finally expand our sense of possibilities with some real-life examples by different writers.

Depending on the size of the group (no more than 20 people), there will be time for questions and sharing of our results. By the end you should have a new set of tools in your tool-kit and an understanding of why they can make such a huge difference.

You can find out more about Emma Darwin via her blog This Itch of Writing.

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Looking forward to seeing you there.

Sara Mallett
Host for the event