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Replay! Wow with Your Choices
Watch now | Replace, Add, Experiment--Vision. Key in on patterns encountered (over 20 years of editing) that hold works back & prompts that get your…
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Wow with Your Choices!
Guide your writing from draft to polished vision. Explore patterns I encountered (over 20 years of editing) that hold works in progress back and prompts…
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Workshops to Usher Our Hearts' Imaginings to the Page
Based on 20 years editing, each workshop shares patterns holding works back and prompts and exercises to usher them forward. Enter the joyful, freeing…
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Replay! Be Stunningly Concise
Watch now! Learn to cut work with ease & skill. Two gifts we give readers and three gifts we give ourselves. Plus a game and a worksheet to get us…
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Be Stunningly Concise! The gifts we give readers and ourselves by tossing back what’s not needed and loving it
A craft essay and preview of a workshop on cutting our work to give readers the gifts they crave—sans price tag.
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Replay! Reel in New Writing Depths
Watch now! (Check out a preview, free subscribers :)-). This workshop explores how seeing our work with fresh eyes helps us go deeper, try new stuff…
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Reel in New Writing Depths! Deeply Question to Transform Your Work
Wanna create work that succeeds on its own terms? Turn anecdote into art. Uncover emotional truths. Write pieces that change you and your readers. Learn…
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Replay! Reach New Writing Heights
Watch now! Check out a free preview. The workshop covers: Making a deal with fear by becoming your own best editor, what developmental editing is and…
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Reach New Writing Heights! Develop early drafts and make a deal with the inner critic
Wanna tell the inner critic you got this? Transform your work with curiosity. Learn when and how to apply developmental editing strategies to your own…
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Be Your Own Best Editor and Set the Writer in You Free (BYEO Workshops Intro)
Wanna set the writer in you free? Wherever you are, this is how you enter the joyful practice of being your own best editor. Learn to separate editor…
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