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SUMMARY:August REPLAY | The Ideal Sentence: Your Voice\, Your Tone\, Your Pace
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\n\n\nREPLAY INCLUDES: VIDEO\, CHAT\, HANDOUT\, AND TRANSCRIPT \n\n\n\nFor All Genres \n\n\n\nWill 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? \n\n\n\nIt’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.  \n\n\n\nProse 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. \n\n\n\nExercises presented will be focused on voice\, tone\, mood\, and pace. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nREFINE your writing voices\n\n\n\nEXPERIMENT with mood\, tone\, and pace\n\n\n\nDEVELOP powerful new beginnings\n\n\n\nCREATE a better understanding of your writerly strengths\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who:\n\n\n\n\nare intent on capturing the attention of agents\, editors\, and readers.  \n\n\n\nare keen on perfecting their work.\n\n\n\nwish to build more dimension into their writing.\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about sentence craft and explore their writing voice.\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe live event happened in May 2025.ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne 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 \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBecause the replay is delivered instantly upon purchase\, all sales are final. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Writing That Breaks the Rules: 10 Craft “Laws” You Can Defy
DESCRIPTION:Every genre has its sacred rules. Learn what they actually protect — so you can break them with confidence.\n\n\n\nFor writers at all stages\, in all genresIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nEvery writer collects a list of commandments. Show\, don’t tell. Don’t start a scene with dialogue. One point-of-view per scene. Search and destroy all adverbs. Memoir must be told in the first person. These rules are repeated in workshops and webinars until we think they’re all true\, all the time\, but most of them are shorthand for a much more useful question: Am I making the best craft choices for readers to experience these words as I intend? \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, Allison K Williams (author of Seven Drafts and editor of NYT bestselling memoirs and novels) debunks the “rules” writers hear most often in workshops\, craft classes\, and query guidance and unpacks the real craft principle underneath each one. You’ll learn which rules are structural (break them\, and the story stops working) and which are stylistic conventions (break them deliberately\, and readers barely notice—or love you for it). We’ll use examples from published books that defy every dictum on this list and succeed anyway\, plus a clear-eyed look at when breaking a rule reads as “bold choice” versus “rookie mistake.” \n\n\n\nYou’ll leave knowing exactly which rules support the writing  you want to do—and which ones were never really rules at all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the difference between structural craft principles and stylistic conventions\n\n\n\nLEARN why POV discipline\, tense consistency\, and dialogue-opening “rules” exist—and what actually breaks when you ignore them\n\n\n\nEXAMINE notable published novels\, essays and memoirs that violate these rules on purpose\, and why they work\n\n\n\nWALK AWAY with a framework for deciding\, scene by scene\, when a “rule” is serving your story and when it’s safe to ignore—or gleefully defy\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who… \n\n\n\n\nkeep getting the same craft note in workshop and want to understand why\, not just fix it\n\n\n\nhave gotten craft feedback that doesn’t resonate or feels just plain wrong\n\n\n\nare drafting memoir\, YA\, or genre fiction and want to know which conventions their category actually enforces (and what to do if you’re not going to play along)\n\n\n\nhave a bold structural choice in mind and want to pressure-test it before committing\n\n\n\nare tired of contradictory advice and want one clear-eyed pass through the “rules” that matter\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharp\, funny\, and genuinely useful from the first five minutes\, Allison K Williams is the author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from First Draft to Book Deal and Managing Editor of the Brevity Blog. She teaches memoir and novel craft through Rebirth Your Writing\, leads retreats from Maine to Morocco to the middle of the Atlantic\, and has a well-earned reputation for advice that improves your pages the same day you hear it.  \n\n\n\nAllison holds an MFA from Western Michigan University\, and her own work has appeared in The New York Times\, McSweeney’s\, and Brevity (the magazine) as well as on NPR\, The Moth\, Snap Judgement\, and CBC-Canada. She is the co-producer of CRAFT TALKS and founder of The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process.  \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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