Description
Learn how to approach your writing with an editorial eye, taking the raw material and shaping it into a compelling narrative. Perfect for writers of all experience levels looking to improve their self-editing skills.
This 60-minute session will cover, with examples, approaches to creative expression by:
- Hooking the audience
- Saying more with less
- Adding texture to the writing
- Saying it powerfully
- Saying it beautifully.
To form something that feels right, the feeling right is an awareness that can be trained and developed. We don’t ‘just know’ – we learn to ride the shape of the text, to listen to its music, to successfully render a vision that is the work in its best form.
Includes:
Downloadable lecture video (close caption and auto-generated transcript)
Instructor slides
Instructor Bio:
Dr Eugen M. Bacon (MA, MSc, PhD) is an African Australian author of several novels and collections. She’s a British Fantasy Award winner, a Foreword Book of the Year silver award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, a Rhysling and twice Elgin award nominee for poetry, and a finalist in the British Science Fiction Association, Aurealis, Ditmar and Australian Shadow Awards. Eugen was announced in the honor list of the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing by Apex Book Company made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Eugen’s creative work has appeared worldwide, including in Apex Magazine, Award Winning Australian Writing, Fantasy Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction. Visit her website at eugenbacon.com.
