August Meeting: Art Taylor on Pro Prose

PRO PROSE: TIPS FOR TIGHTENING YOURS
With an eye toward economy, efficiency, and focus, we’ll explore various ways to keep your prose tight and taut. How can you use and balance the five elements of scene-building? How do you keep the emphasis on the right place in your sentences? How might you be misusing dialogue tags? What does the word “filtering” mean—and why should you avoid it?