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Presenter: Katrina Kittle

Best-selling author Elmore Leonard said, ?I try to leave out the parts people skip.? Nothing makes a reader skim more than long, flat passages of description that stop a story?s momentum. No matter what kind of writing you do (fiction, memoir, poetry, essay), this class is chock-full of tips, tricks and exercises designed to make your descriptions come to life. We?ll give tired old clich?s a makeover, bolster our figurative language and embrace concrete, sensory details. Everyone is always telling writers, ?Show, don?t tell,? but this workshop will show you to actually do that effectively and creatively. We?ll look at lots of published samples of description that is doing double- and triple-duty in a story, and you?ll write some of your own as well.