Fiction with Clif Travers

“I hate you. I love you. Stop talking!”

Exploring the said and the unsaid

Realistic dialogue is crucial, but there is so much that can be revealed about character relationships beyond the words they share. In this workshop we will begin with dialogue and then move beyond it, to the revelations that you can reveal to the reader that go deeper than the spoken work. Each participant should come to the workshop with a character they would like to explore. Through some of the techniques we’ve done before, we’ll create a significant relationship for our characters, and then we’ll develop scenes and stories that come from that exploration.

What our characters say within their relationships is important. But what they don’t say is equally significant. Let’s discover both.  

 

Clif Travers is a visual artist and writer, recently relocated to his home state of Maine after too
many years in Brooklyn, NY. His writing has been featured in Underwood Press, freeze frame
fiction, Crack the Spine Anthology, and Coffin Bell Journal, among others. He received his MFA
in creative writing from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. His collection of short
stories and novellas titled The Stones of Riverton is under consideration by Islandport Press.
They are tales inspired by the gravestones in his hometown in Western Maine and are based on
the rumors of the suspicious deaths of those who lie beneath them.
Clif lives in Portland, Maine with his adorable pup Ollie.