Summer 2002 Workshops at Writers & Books

Editing, Writing, and the Publishing Business

Making Sense of the Sentence

• Instructor: Len Messineo [ bio ]
• Two Saturdays, August 24 & 31, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• $68 General Public/$55 W&B Members
• Limit: 20

Gertrude Stein said, "A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself know it."

The sentence is the basic building block of prose and ties the story to the oral voice of the storyteller. We're going to look at expressive considerations in writing sentences, constructing clear and graceful lines, jagged fragments. We'll look at how sentences serve as a vehicle of discovering what you don't know you mean, and how sentences shape and enforce meaning in dialogue, scene and exposition.

This is more a finger painting class than grammar class.

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