June 2025 Workshop
Self-Edit Your Story
Instructor: Lynne Pearson
Start Date: Monday, June 2, 2025
End Date: Friday, June 13, 2025
Duration: 2 Weeks
Type: Groups.io
USD Fee: A2P Member – $5; Non-A2P Member – $15
Class Description
Self-Edit Your Story
Whether you intend to be an independent author or seek traditional publishing, your story deserves to go out into the world at its very best. In Self-Edit Your Story, freelance editor and independent author Lynne Pearson guides you through the steps of the revision process to make your manuscript shine.
While writing progresses from sentence to paragraph to scene to story, editing moves from story to scene to sentence, focusing on the big picture first. There is no point in sending a book out into the world that is grammatically correct and free of spelling mistakes if the story doesn’t hold the reader’s attention.You will learn how to analyze your story from the top down:
Students will:
- How to analyze a story chapter by chapter
- How to deconstruct a scene
- How to improve both the content and delivery of a story
Lynne Pearson Lynne Pearson is a freelance fiction editor, a member of the Emerald City Romance Writers (formerly Greater Seattle Romance Writers of America), and was the Emerald City Writers’ Conference 2021 conference chair. She belongs to the Editors’ Association of Earth, and the Northwest Editors Guild. She found her calling in 2015 when she realized she wanted to help writers improve their stories. She earned a Certificate in Editing from the University of Washington and is a lifelong learner. She publishes fun, flirty, feel-good fiction under the name Lynne Hancock Pearson. She contributed to and was the editor of a non-fiction essay collection, Filling the Void; Voices from the None Zone, published by Market Square Books in 2019.
Lynne has woken many a morning with a book hangover.
March 2025 Workshop
Enrich Your Writing with Sensory Language
Instructor: Zara West
Start Date: Monday, March 3, 2025
End Date: Monday, March 31, 2025
Duration: 4 Weeks
Type: Groups.io
USD Fee: A2P Member – $10; Non-A2P Member – $20
Class Description
Did you know that there are 7 senses? Or wait is that 8? At any rate, no matter how many there are, a great writer uses ALL of them in EVERY place possible in their writing. In this course, you will learn about our senses, how they work, and when, where and how to use them in your current WIP to set the scene, deepen emotion, and spark up action. Many resources for describing sensory elements will be provided.
We will cover:
· Our Senses – How they work and why writers can’t leave them out
· The Magic of Touch
· Scents, Aromas, and Stinks
· Tasting the World
· Listening for It
· So Much to See
· Finding Our Balance
· Sensory Soup: Examples and cautions
· Going Beyond: Extrasensory Madness
Course Bonus Every participant in this workshop will receive a sensory critique of one chapter or 3000 words of their WIP, with special attention to the use of sensory description.
Zara West loves all things mysterious, adventurous, and heart-stopping, as long as they lead to true love. Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Zara West spends winters in New York where the streets hum with life, summers in the Maritimes where the sea meets the shore, and the rest of the year anywhere inspiration for tales of adventure and love are plentiful. An award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction, Zara West has published the award-winning romantic thriller series, The Skin Quartet and Tide Harbor Suspense. She is also the author of the Write for Success series of writing craft books for every writer and teaches numerous online courses.