Writers’ Workshop at Book Passage, Saturday, June 26

By Larry Habegger | June 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Connie Hale and I will be running a “Manuscript Clinic with The Prose Doctors: Polishing your prose so it sings” on Saturday, June 26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Book Passage in Marin County. This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to strengthen his or her writing in that crucial final draft where you craft the words to really work for you.

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Connie Hale and I will be running a “Manuscript Clinic with The Prose Doctors: Polishing your prose so it sings” on Saturday, June 26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Book Passage in Marin County. This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to strengthen his or her writing in that crucial final draft where you craft the words to really work for you.

Sign up here.

You’ve arranged the pieces of a reported article, you’ve penned a brutally honest memoir, you’ve finally finished that magazine feature. Now you’re ready to polish the prose so that it sings—and so that it speaks to every editor you send it to. Veteran editors Larry Habegger and Constance Hale of The Prose Doctors (www.prosedoctors.com) will spend the day with you practicing what writers call The Craft: paring prose to its essence, styling sentences with flair, and building memorable characters and scenes. The day will be filled with discussions of craft, practice sentences, and exercises to build new writing muscles. The instructors will review in advance a manuscript from each student, and during the class we will work on polishing one double-spaced page from that manuscript.

And here are a few words about Connie, my partner in The Prose Doctors:

Constance Hale teaches writing at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and has edited more than two dozen books. She is the author of Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose. Her writing has appeared in Yoga Journal, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic Adventure, Smithsonian and The Atlantic Monthly, among many other publications.

I hope to see you there. Sign up here.