7. Workshop #3 - THE MAGIC OF THE WORD - Word, Sentence, Paragraph (Nancy Davis)

Get a facelift for your novel's skin, its words.

• Words are powerful
• Words make literature beautiful
• You’re a writer, partly because you love words

Release the poet within and strengthen your writing by

• tapping into all five senses
• creating visual images with metaphor, or just plain talk
• grabbing a lifeline before you go overboard
• describing characters well
• using The Rhythm Method

Nancy will draw on literature (e.g., No Country for Old Men, Conrad McCarthy; White Oleander, Janet Fitch; Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad), and so-called popular fiction (John Le Carré.)