Jul 25, 2019
This week on the Story Works Round Table, Alida, Robert, and Kathryn continue to explore what makes a sentence great. We discuss lyrical prose, surprising readers with a sentence-level twist, the use of evocative verbs and adjectives, show don't tell, "wow" sentences that make you stop and re-read, and a dip into...
Jul 18, 2019
This week at the Round Table, Alida, Kathryn, & Robert continue their conversation about writing great sentences in novels of any genres. How many types of sentences are there? Do sentences need to be grammatically correct to be great? Do they need to be lyrical to be great? No. The sentences we craft serve a variety of...
Jul 11, 2019
This week, Alida, Robert, & Kathryn discuss what makes a great sentence. There’s probably more to it than you’d think. We start off with a surprise—at least we surprised ourselves: it was a harder to find great sentences than we expected it to be. What’s the difference between a great sentence and a great...
Jul 4, 2019
This week at the Round Table, Alida and Kathryn discuss critiques from the red pen side of things. And what skills should a good critique partner have? No writer wants the "it's good" critique. Or the "trashed my work" critique. What actually goes into becoming a quality critiquer of others' work? We talk about both the...