Every beginning sets a tone, establishes a voice, and signals the quality of the language that is to come. Your beginning is one of your most important writing choices–learn to make it powerful.

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Will that language be complex and tangled? Plain-spoken? Vanilla? Lavender? Will it zing like jazz or sing like a lullabye? Will it feel lethargic, or will it clop, or will it swashbuckle?

It’s always time to think about sentences—to explore the ways they work (and sometimes don’t), the ways we bend them to get closer to the truth, and the ways we work on patterns and rhythms so that the pages remain alive. 

Prose from Hilton Als, Michael Ondaatje, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jia Tolentino, Annie Dillard, Olivia Laing, Carmen Machado, Terry Tempest Williams, and Mark Richard will inspire us and lead our way.

Exercises presented will be focused on voice, tone, mood, and pace.

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In this webinar, you will:

• REFINE your writing voices
• EXPERIMENT with mood, tone, and pace
• DEVELOP powerful new beginnings
• CREATE a better understanding of your writerly strengths

This webinar is ideal for writers who:

• are intent on capturing the attention of agents, editors, and readers.  
• are keen on perfecting their work.
• wish to build more dimension into their writing.
• Want to learn more about sentence craft and explore their writing voice.

Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔

ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER

One of our favorite presenters, BETH KEPHART, is the award-winning writer of memoir, children’s books, young adult novels, and craft books. She is also a paper artist. Her new book, her first novel for adults, is Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story. Please join her Substack journey at The Hush and the Howl. More at bethkephartbooks.com

Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com

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