WORKSHOP FOCUS
From a 13-step process for the writer—including the critical concept of knowing your audience—to the self-editing that must be lavished on a complete manuscript, here is a concentrated course on non-fiction writing.

The instructor will give attention to

• securing the best information through reporting and research;
• clarity and completeness in copy;
• the long and the short of things;
• style and tone and that mysterious, sometimes elusive matter called voice;
• power words of the language;
• beginnings and endings;
• structures that work to be inclusive and exclusive;
• narration and description and exposition;
• the treasures in detail, and more.

Whether you write for children or readers of all ages, whether your enthusiasm is the article or the book, the essay or the profile, the story or explanatory piece, the instructor will strive to engage and guide you toward an improved understanding of reader needs and wants, as well as an enhanced self-understanding so that you can make the most of your gifts and personality.

Please note: For a one-on-one manuscript critique, participants may send up to five pages of a single manuscript for review. Manuscripts must reach us by May 15, 2008. Mail to Jo Lloyd, The Highlights Foundation, Writing Memorable Nonfiction, 814 Court Street, Honesdale, PA, 18431.