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Nancy Barry Get Your Prose In Shape: Revision Strategies For Essayists Writing Out Loud: Voice And Style In The Essay Get Your Prose In Shape: Revision Strategies For Essayists Even though most writers yearn for an essay to emerge fully-formed, perfectly structured, and full of eloquence, we all know this happens only in our dreams. Real writing is created through revision, but what does that mean? And how does a writer know when an essay is truly, finally, finished? This workshop is designed for writers who want to articulate a revision process for themselves—not so much as a template to follow, but as a vehicle for sharpening the form, meaning, and power within their essays. We will inventory our own practice as writers in order to expand our repertoire of strategies to disentangle the layers of meaning, intention and language that constitute an early draft. We will discuss deliberate and discrete stages of revision, and try out exercises to sharpen our sense of what it means to create “the next version” of an essay. Writers should bring one or two essays that need revision. Class time will be spent in both revision exercises as well as manuscript review. Writing Out Loud: Voice And Style In The Essay This workshop is designed for essay writers who want to make their prose sing. Strong writing usually conveys the power of the spoken voice, but that doesn’t mean we create fluid prose simply by recording our voice on the page. As writers, we need to revise as much for sound as we do for sense, and this workshop will help us sharpen those techniques that create style in prose—sentence length and rhythm, alliteration and the tonal qualities within word choice. Readers often recognize or hear a writer’s voice emerging from the page, and good writers know that style should always reinforce, not contradict, an essay’s content or theme. Few of us imagine we can change our voice by a few strokes of the pen, but writers do manipulate those features of prose writing that directly impact a reader’s sense of style. In this workshop, we will work through several exercises to increase our command of style, as well as intentionally revise an essay to create a memorable style. Writers of all levels are welcome. Biography
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