Writing Workshop - Part 3

23 Abril 2021, 15:30 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we carried out our third and final Writing Workshop.

• Warm Up - 5 Senses:
• Close your eyes and stay still. Maybe you’re in your bedroom, maybe you’re in a coffee shop, maybe you’re at FLUL, it doesn’t matter where you are…
  
• Ask yourself: what do you smell?  What do you hear?  What do you taste? What’s the temperature? What do you feel? Finally…open your eyes and look around you.  What do you see?
  
• Write a 1st person text that describes where you are and your sensorial experience in it.
• You have 10 minutes.
• Exercise 1: 5 Senses - Stage 2
  
• Choose one of the Edward Hopper paintings you’re about to see.
  
• Imagine you are one of the characters in the paintings.
  
• Write down what you:
  
• Smell
  
• Taste
  
• Feel (physically/touch)
  
• Hear
  
• See
  
• You have 15 minutes.
• Exercise 2: Dear Diary
  
• Now imagine that your character from the painting is writing a diary entry.
  
• Describe how they feel, in other words, what their mood is.
  
• Try to integrate the sensorial elements from the previous exercise.
  
• Your character can write about something that happened that day, or about their dreams, their frustrations, anything, just like a real diary.
• This is a 1st person text – you are the character.
  
• You have 20-30 minutes to write this text.