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Classes Starting the Week of May 20 & 27

Starting the Week of May 20 Plot Gardening with Ines Johnson Driving Through Tunnels—What Does Your Character Fear Most? with Kathy Otten Overwriting Oh Nos! Trimming Your Prose the Painless Way with JoSelle Vanderhooft Starting the Week of May 27 Romancing the Doctor: An Author’s Guide to Medical Terminology with Patricia Fischer How to Write the …

Classes Starting the Week of May 13

Starting the Week of May 13 The Newbie Guide to Writing a First Series with Beth Daniels ~ May 13 – June 9 Special Events, Programs, and Webinars starting this week INTENSIVE: Editing Your Mystery Novel with Traci Andrighetti ~ May 13 – June 23 See more!

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Classes Starting the Week of April 29

Yes, You Can write a Picture Book in a Month! with Irene Roth ~ April 29 – May 26 Your First Five Pages: Glue Your Reader to YOUR Story with Laura Drake ~ April 29 – May 12 See more!

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Fatty Sentences—or Reducing Prepositional Phrases by Franca Pelaccia

Has an editor recommended you tighten your sentences by reducing excess fat? Have you wondered how when you edited to the bare bones? Think again. Among other things, you may have a case of superfluous prepositional phrases. Deleting them won’t damage the beauty and flow of your well-thought and over-revised sentences or the overall plot. …

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Fatty Sentences—or Reducing Prepositional Phrases by Franca Pelaccia