Ever received feedback suggesting your prose could be “tighter” or have a little more flair? Or perhaps you’re interested in polishing up your work, but don’t know where to start.
This is the webinar for you.
Over the two hours, I’ll give you tools for your writer’s kit to make sentences sing! We’ll do several exercises and look at loads of examples. At the end you will be emailed a copy of the slides for reference.
I’ve had my short stories published in PodCastle, Strange Horizons, ParSec and other SFF magazines. I’ve been reprinted in three “Best of” yearly anthologies, as well as others. My short story collection won a British Fantasy Award in 2023 and this April, I won a BSFA for Best Short Story, which has also been nominated for a BFA.
I give and receive critiques on stories and books at the Glasgow SF Writers’ Circle, and use this experience to constantly hone my work and analysis skills. I’ve also edited two anthologies and been a slush reader for the British Fantasy Society’s Horizons magazine. I’ve got a lot of relevant experience that I can pass on to you!
We’ll be talking about an important self-editing toolkit to help you tighten up and polish your prose on a sentence to sentence level. We’ll be looking beyond the usual platitudes of self-help books (“just delete all your adverbs!”, “show don’t tell!” etc) to what might work for the piece you are writing.
Instead of being prescriptive, I’ll give you adaptive tools to use as you please. These techniques can be used on short stories, or longer works.
With your newfound knowledge, you can hope to get your work in front of magazine head editors and prevent slush pile premature drop-out! I can’t guarantee your stories get selected, but can help you get more consistent attention and praise.
Writing a novel? These techniques are great to help your prose get punchy and pacy. Using the tools I give you, your beta readers will inhale your words and proofreaders will say, “I wish all my clients could write like this!”
Get your Zoom seat at this webinar now!