HTH - The Art of Expansion & Reduction

Do you have an outline or a short story you want to take to a novel?  Learn the four steps of how expansion is achieved through careful development of selected areas, NOT through simply inserting extraneous images, sentences and scenes.  Or do you have a spewed novel or short story that needs to be pared down to meet an agent, an editor or a contest’s guidelines?  Learn the four steps of how and where to cut away the extraneous material to create the cleanest, most evocative copy you can.

The Art of Expansion & Reduction

Summary
Do you have an outline or a short story you want to take to a novel?  Learn the four steps of how expansion is achieved through careful development of selected areas, NOT through simply inserting extraneous images, sentences and scenes.  Or do you have a spewed novel or short story that needs to be pared down to meet an agent, an editor or a contest’s guidelines?  Learn the four steps of how and where to cut away the extraneous material to create the cleanest, most evocative copy you can.

Course Outline

  • Session One:  The Big Picture Analysis
  • Session Two:  Greater Expansion of Characterization & Structure
  • Session Three: Lesser Expansion of Details
  • Session Four:  Micro Expansion of Grammar’s Tools
  • Session Five:  Greater Reductions Analysis
  • Session Six: Lesser Reductions of Extraneous EDNA
  • Session Seven: Micro Reductions in Grammar’s Style
  • Session Eight: Overall Reduction Process of Story Structure

Speaker
Sally J Walker - Born to poor farm folk in the little rural community of Exira, Iowa, Sally attended many schools in western Iowa and the Omaha, Nebraska, area.  She eventually graduated from Papillion (NE) High School then nursing school at the University of Albuquerque and, eventually received a BFA in Creative Writing back at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  That degree was accomplished while working full-time as a Critical Care/ER nurse and raising a very active family of three daughters with her engineer husband.  Adeptly juggling family, nursing, civic and Episcopal church responsibilities.

Sally founded in 1985 and has conducted the weekly meetings of the eclectic Nebraska Writers Workshop www.nebraskawritersworkshop.info  to feed her own hunger for in-depth knowledge and skills. The Workshop has grown from a few tentative members to over 50 confidently publishing and produced writers. Her own goal-oriented writing ethic has resulted in a vitae packed with novels, short stories, poetry, magazine articles, stage plays, screenplays and a variety of writing seminars.  From 2000 through 2018 she worked part-time as Editorial Director at a small publishing company, The Fiction Works, and as Script Supervisor for its affiliated Misty Mountain Productions www.mistymountainproductions.com.
After retiring from her nursing career of over 30 years, she was elected president of a state-wide writers organization, serving 2007-2011.  Besides maintaining her heavy writing schedule, since 1987 she has taught on-site and on-line seminars for a variety of venues and in fall of 2017 took the position of Professor of Screenwriting for Omaha’s Metropolitan Community College.  In Fall of 2018 she signed with the publishing company Author Academy Elite. 

http://www.sallyjwalker.com

When
10/4/2021 - 10/30/2021

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