If you’ve embarked on the process of writing your first book, there’s a good chance that you’re struggling a bit. Books are big, unwieldy creatures, and even the bravest among us can feel overwhelmed by the thought of filling all those hundreds of blank pages with intelligent, effervescent words.
Award-winning author, editor and teacher Michelle Tea offers this class to help you believe in your abilities as a writer, stick to your goal and push through that first draft. She’ll outline some of the key tricks to writing a great book and inspire you to produce the vibrant, sparkling and unique work that’s inside your head and waiting to come out.
In this class, you’ll learn how to:
- Be specific and avoid vagueness.
- Bring your five senses to your writing by including sound, light, scent, texture and taste in every scene.
- Find your pacing: write slow, write strong.
- Show, don’t tell.
- Build your unique voice and create a shelf of voices you wish your voice to be in conversation with.
- Keep your editing brain away from your creative brain.
