Saturday, November 26, GLVWG welcomed Katheryn Craft as a guest speaker to help members understand how to develop a confident voice, and a self-editing process called Macro Editing. Dawn Sooy, GLVWG Secretary, summarized what we learned.
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The morning topic “Developing a Confident Voice, Ten Provocative Questions” began with Kathryn asking ten questions, then asking participants to write their interpretation of the question as it relates to a story.
For example:
1. In what ways can you trust the reader to bring her/his life
experience to the reading of your book?
a. Need to have a tone of confidence for your audience.
The readers can sense this while reading and will keep
them reading.
2. Which setting and character detail will evoke the
emotional world of your character?
a. Only put in details that are essential to the character
Sometimes writers tend to add words that take away
from the character.
Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group 