Wordcraft: Make Your Writing Sparkle

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Do you want your writing to sparkle with vivid sensory detail and imagery, capturing the essence of your message? For it to have greater precision, clarity and originality, while also containing rich similes, metaphors and alliteration? For your use of active verbs to enable your words to come alive on the page? Whether you write fiction, memoir, nonfiction or poetry, the examples we’ll read in class and the creative writing exercises we’ll do will help you make your writing sparkle.

Tracy Marks, M.A. is author of four books, translated into nine languages, and has won several poetry and creative writing awards. She is also an experienced counselor. Tracy has taught in continuing ed for 43 years and specializes in literature, creative writing and personal growth courses.