Teaching

In the beginning we had Show and Tell. We held up a chewed doll or a favorite baseball cap or a clay model of Aunt Sadie in her funny hat and we told the story behind the object. 

Then we had Show, Don’t Tell. Render the story, don’t explain it or describe it as if it were a text for a stage manager. 

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Now we have Show. Tell. and Show And Tell. 

Sounds easy, right? It’s actually quite complex, when we understand that we are talking about Scene (Show) and Narrative (Tell).  

 

In this workshop we will learn to differentiate Show from Tell on the level of line. Once we’ve figured that out, we will see how master writers weave narrative and scene together, as if these two modes of writing were the happiest couple in town, the bashert couple that fits seamlessly together, the couple in sync.

 

Bring your yellow and blue highlighters for this workshop, so we can actually delineate scene from narrative in the works of masters, as well as behold the couple in sync. Once we get the hang of it, we will rewrite our own paragraphs and pages, paying intense attention to what we are actually doing when we rewrite. 

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For physical sustenance we will have a forty-five-minute lunch break. You can either BYO and stay inside air-conditioned Pa’amon, or go enjoy one of the many colorful eateries in Florentine. (There is a small fridge in Pa’amon to store your lunch.)

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This workshop is geared for writers and wannabe writers of fiction and/or creative nonfiction. Ten participants will convene around the large table in Pa’amon, Inbal Giladi’s room of her own. The space is located in an old industrial complex on the corner of R. Eilat and R. Eliphelet, a one-minute walk from the Eliphelet Station of Tel Aviv’s Light Rail. From Tel Aviv’s Savidor Mercaz Train and Bus Station, the trip is fifteen minutes.