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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 | Worth 1000 Words: Writing the Image+Text Essay
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes words aren’t enough. Discover how photos\, documents\, original artwork\, and other visual elements can deepen\, complicate\, and illuminate your creative nonfiction.\n\n\n\nFor creative nonfiction\, including hybrid & experimentalIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nFrom family photos\, maps\, and diagrams to drawings\, erasures\, and collages\, authors\, artists\, and publishers are finding new ways to present mixed media texts that combine words and visual elements. Whether you’ve already started using images or are curious about how images could enrich your writing process and practice\, this webinar is for you. \n\n\n\nFrom brainstorming and generating to the printed page\, images can add depth and nuance to your writing practice and finished drafts. We’ll look at striking examples of hybrid and mixed media essays\, and talk through not only the whys but also the hows—including technical and conceptual considerations (‘Do I need Photoshop?’ ‘What does ‘print ready’ mean?’ ‘Does it count as Fair Use if I only use a piece of someone else’s work?’ You’ll leave with inspiration and actionable ideas for your own visual + text essays. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN different uses for images in both brainstorming and writing essays\n\n\n\nGET an overview of practical considerations\, such as hardware and software\, publication readiness\, and permissions for images that aren’t your own\n\n\n\nBE INSPIRED by image+text prompts and a roundup of resources\n\n\n\nDISCOVER image + text work from a great reading list\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who… \n\n\n\n\nwant to explore hybrid writing\, collage\, or experimental essays\n\n\n\nenjoy hands-on brainstorming techniques (collage is great for that!)\n\n\n\nare already experimenting with images and want to learn how to get them published\n\n\n\nhave a visual art practice or passion they want to combine with their writing practice\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\nKnown for packing her webinars with deep knowledge\, actionable information\, and fun facts\, Chelsea Biondolillo is a collage artist and the author of The Skinned Bird: Essays and two prose chapbooks\, Ologies and #Lovesong.  \n\n\n\nHer essays have been collected in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016\, The Lyric Essay as Resistance\, How We Talk to One Another: An Essay Daily Reader and is forthcoming in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay.  \n\n\n\nChelsea’s paper and mixed media collages have been shown in Oregon\, Washington\, and New York. Her image and text essay\, “Weeds” was the winner of CRAFT Literary’s inaugural hybrid writing contest. She has a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA from the University of Wyoming. She currently lives in Eugene\, Oregon. \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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