The Place Of Place In Your Fiction: It Can Be A Whole Lot More Than Scenery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The classic Marshall Cook comes to AllWriters’!

WAUKESHA – On April 21st, AllWriters’ offers up a heaping
helping of experience and knowledge!

All fiction has to take place somewhere, but how much
attention needs to be spent on setting?  It
isn’t the amount of description that makes it effective. It’s quality, not
quantity, that counts, and the most important quality your description needs is
purpose. Effective description has a job to do, helping the reader visualize
the story, creating mood and tone, even helping establish theme and character.  In our Celebrity Saturday event,  The Place Of Place In Your Fiction: It Can Be
A Whole Lot More Than Scenery, author Marshall Cook will help you to develop
your description by looking at some master writers for examples, and then
applying these important lessons to your own work.

The Place Of Place In Your Fiction will take place on
April 21, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 
The fee is $85 and includes lunch from the Café De Art! You can register
by calling 262-446-0284, or going online at www.allwriters.org., click on
Celebrity Saturdays.

MARSHALL J. COOK has published 30 books and hundreds of
articles and short stories. His  fiction
includes the Monona Quinn Mystery Series (Bleak House Books), the baseball
novels The Year of the Buffalo and Off Season (Savage Press), and Walking
Wounded: a wartime love story (CreateSpace). Marshall is a professor emeritus
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught writing for over 30
years. He edits and publishes Extra Innings, a newsletter for writers, and is a
contributing editor to The Writer’s Magazette. He holds his BA in creative
writing and his MA in communications from Stanford University, where he studied
under Wallace Stegner.

AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop offers on-site and
online writing courses in all genres and abilities of creative writing, as well
as coaching, editing, and marketing services. 
A schedule of classes and registration is available online at
www.allwriters.org or you can call 262-446-0284.  AllWriters’ is located at 234 Brook Street,
Unit 2, in historic downtown Waukesha.