How Participle Phrases and Absolute Phrases Can Make My Writing Sexy

The first part of this seminar will deal with writing and using participle phrases and absolute phrases to strengthen your writing. I will "scaffold" the lesson, allowing you to master these types of phrases.

We will be doing this in conjunction with the Nashville Writers Meetup.

If you wish, you can stay for the rest of the presentation.

Our special guest will be Mike Turner.

Ask Mike Turner questions. He knows where to look or search for the questions (and sometimes the answers) to many things.

Mike will start off the talk with several paragraphs from Joanna Rakoff’s MY SALINGER YEAR. He will discuss how emulating sentences from books you love can teach you how to develop your own voice. (If you love a writer, you are loving the sentences; the sentences speak to you, and that love connects you to your voice, the voice that wants to develop, to linger, to storm.)

You will learn how to write a participle phrase and an absolute phrase, learning how writing these phrases can add to your writer’s palette.

Have questions about writing and publishing? Mike doesn’t have all the answers, but he has a few suggestions.

Mike will bring a few books to show around, such as CJ Redwine’s QUERY, Jerrold Mundis’s STOP WRITERS’ BLOCK NOW, and Dan Poynter’s WRITING NONFICTION: TURNING THOUGHTS INTO BOOKS.

He will bring some current issues of POETS and WRITERS.

Also, are you wondering how you can have the best of both worlds if you have finished your novel?

Afraid you would get lost if published by the Big Five?

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/09/publishing/now-there-are-5/#_?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremygreenfield/2014/01/14/why-superstar-author-john-green-still-has-publisher/

Wondering if self-publishing is the way?

He has a suggestion for a middle path.

Keep questions to 2 or 3 sentences, so more questions can be asked and answered.

Mike will bring his laptop, cut and paste links as connections are made, and then post the document as a PDF so that all can benefit.

Also, you can share your own experiences or ideas. Keep shares to 2 minutes tops, so that more ideas can be cumulated. Mike will attempt to put those ideas into the document as well.

Please indicate Yes if you are coming, so Mike can make enough handouts.