{"id":3299,"date":"2017-10-19T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T21:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2017-10-19T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T21:42:06","slug":"crimedetective-fiction-writing-workshop-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/crimedetective-fiction-writing-workshop-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime\/Detective Fiction Writing Workshop Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!--\n\t\t@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n\t\tA:link { so-language: zxx }\n\t-->\n\t<\/style>\n<p>Writers:<\/p>\n<p>Six months ago, I held a detective fiction writing workshop that was well attended and well received. Several the participants have since contacted me and asked if I would hold a follow-up session.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my idea for something novel. The Part 2 workshop would be held Saturday, Dec. 2 and Sunday Dec. 3 and work like this:<\/p>\n<p>We would meet in an Astoria-area dive bar 3:00 pm on Saturday for a two-hour session of dark beer and some interesting writing prompts and discussion items. These places are exquisite to write this genre and walk into a story.<\/p>\n<p>We would then meet Sunday at a private home in Astoria from 10-1 for a follow up and deeper treatment of the subject. The writer would need to come with a detective character in mind with a somewhat developed back story. This is what we worked through in Part 1 of the workshop. A writer doesn&#8217;t have to have participated in the first workshop to attend. He or she only needs to come with a detective character in mind.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half of the workshop, we would run through exercises on writing dialogue, how to introduce clues, advancing plot, and a unique Dashielle Hammett exercise that will further develop the detective&#8217;s back story and methodology for solving a case.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop would cost $100. If you are interested, let me know via email through the NSP web site. December is the best black time to write this kind of fiction. I hope some of us can come together and advance our respective ideas. There were some damn good ones presented in the first workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers: Six months ago, I held a detective fiction writing workshop that was well attended and well received. Several the participants have since contacted me and asked if I would hold a follow-up session. Here&#8217;s my idea for something novel. The Part 2 workshop would be held Saturday, Dec. 2 and Sunday Dec. 3 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[20,24,407,30,101,6,395,13,21,7,31],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-writing","tag-astoria","tag-bars","tag-crime-fiction","tag-detective-fiction","tag-dive-bars","tag-matt-love","tag-noir","tag-oregon-coast","tag-oregon-tavern-age","tag-writing","tag-writing-workshop","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}