How Not to Write-Virtual Only

Beginning & Intermediate
October 2, 2021- Saturday, 1 Session
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Instructor: Carol Crawford
Class Fee:   $50.00 non-members
                     $45.00 BRMAA members                   
In this Virtual class, students will look through the eyes of a book editor and see many of the same mistakes over and over.  The Instructor will give some short in-class exercises that will equip the student to send out clean, readable copy in their next submission. Students will learn how to spot and correct 10 common errors made by even experienced writers and in turn will give the student work clarity and impact.  Some of the technique covered include meeting the demands of your genre, setting the reader in time and space, creating narrative tension, and avoiding misplaced modifiers, passive voice, flabby verbs, sock-puppets dialogue, boring sentence patterns, word swaps, and point of view mistakes.  Students must summit an email upon registration for link to class.  Limited space available, please sign up early.
Call (706) 632-2144 for questions regarding this course and registration.  Payment is required to register for BRMAA courses. You may pay via PayPal above, over the phone, or visit The Art Center located at 420 West Main Street, Blue Ridge, GA 30513 to pay in person. 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
CAROL CRAWFORD

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Carol Crawford is the owner of Carol Crawford Editing and author of The Habit of Mercy: Poems about Daughters and Mothers. 
Carol has taught creative writing for more than twenty years.  For the past seven years she has  worked as a free-lance editor serving more than sixty authors of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature.  She has led workshops for the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Dahlonega Literary Festival, the Red Clay Writers’ Conference, the Writers’ Circle, the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and the Carrollton, Georgia, Writers’ Club.  She has been volunteer program coordinator for the Blue Ridge Writers’ Conference since it began more than twenty years ago.  Her memberships include the Editorial Freelancers Association, the North Carolina Writers Network, Georgia Writers, and the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association.
She has published essays, poetry, and fiction in in the Southern Humanities Review, the Chattahoochee Review, the Concho River Review, and the Journal of Kentucky Studies, among others.  She loves to help people tell their stories.