Borrowing from the Greats: What Can Writers Learn from Other Artists?

For centuries, musicians, dancers, and visual artists have turned to the written word for inspiration. Here’s your chance to look back at them and cop a few lessons. What can musicians teach us about repetition and timing? What can painters teach us about economy and contrast? What can dancers teach us about gesture and pacing? In this seminar, we’ll look at how prose writers can find ideas, techniques, inspiration, and even form and structure possibilities from other artistic disciplines. Bring a few passages you’ve previously written that you’d like to play with, and together, we’ll give some of these tricks a tryout.