by Cindy R | Mar 20, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Finding your writing voice Students often ask me how to find their voices as writers. Voice, right? It’s the Holy Grail of writing, that mysterious quality we all seek to attain without really knowing how to get there. Some people will simply tell you to write like...
by Cindy R | Mar 13, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Coming Out of Hibernation The sun returned this week and, with it, a renewed urge to document everything around me. For some, the winter months are a time to hunker down and write. For me, the dark season turns my mind sluggish, my thoughts uninspired. But now, as the...
by Cindy R | Mar 6, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Reading and Writing as Workshop I’ll admit it. I hate to be edited. Whenever I send a piece out for feedback, I cringe inside waiting for comments. It’s not easy to let others read our work. But it’s not always easy to be on the other side either, in the role of...
by Cindy R | Feb 27, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Proofreading: The Final Polish We made it to the end of our February nonfiction knowhow! We’ve looked at editing all the way from high-level story ideas through line-level copyediting. Up this week? The polish. Yep, it’s time to...
by Cindy R | Feb 20, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Running Lines: Editing on the Micro-Level Let’s talk about sentences and the words that make up your sentences. Because y’all have now mastered the high-level editing we talked about in the first two installments of our February...
by Cindy R | Feb 13, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Structural Editing: How your story unfolds Our February nonfiction know-how is all about editing – from the highest level of story concept all the way down to the most specific level of individual word choice. Last week I wrote...
