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Twenty Ways To Immediately Improve Your Writing

October 6 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Eastern

2200 Colonial Ave, Suite #3
Norfolk, Virginia 23517 United States
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Many authors struggle with the same issues—often without knowing why they struggle. We all want to produce tighter, meaningful, more exciting prose, but how do we do it? Learning these proven, twenty guidelines is a great step toward creating better, tighter, and more captivating material to entice and enthrall readers. Writers of any level will appreciate these concepts I have (painfully) learned after much study, practice, and critique. Why not skip the pain? Take a shortcut to success, and watch your prose soar!

About the Instructors

Richard Eley writes sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and various types of non-fiction. His publications include the Death Knell Press horror anthology “Nightmare Sky”; Issues in Science and Technology magazine (SF story “Hot Dogs and Corn Flakes”); the Owl Creek Press SF&F anthology “Cabinet of Curiosities”; the Third Flatiron SF&F anthology “Brain Games”; and the Fahrenheit Books anthology “Automobilia”.

His nonfiction has appeared in the Virginian-Pilot newspaper and in nearly 200 articles and whitepapers for corporate clients. Four of his short stories have won awards and prizes in multiple writing contests.

Richard teaches the craft of writing for The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, VA, and has presented numerous seminars for various writer’s conferences and writing groups. In his free time, he leads the Tidewater Writers critique group and annoys those around him with his opinions on Oxford commas and adverb use.

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