BlogHer 08 Writing Workshop:

EFFECTIVE WRITING FOR THE REAL WORLD

Workshop leader: Amy Gahran

Contentious.com

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E-mail: amy@gahran.com     Twitter: agahran

Workshop handout on Contentious.com

This wiki is a "scratchboard" for live writing exercises during my workshop.

1. The ear catches what the eye misses: Reading your work aloud
2. Fix verbs first: Fastest way to clean up sentence structure.
3. Kill unnecessary prepositional phrases