What do You Want to Learn?

We apprentice to our writing - for as long as we write. I learned English/writing/journalism in the 1940’s and 50’s, so I’m grounded in diagramming sentences; the importance of active sentences; being sure that subject and verb are well connected; developing believable and intriguing characters; writing detailed setting description. But even more than what I learned in my classes, I learned from the two strongest teachers: reading and observing the world. I still apprentice to those teacher. 

How do you want to use me as a teacher? Would you like grounding in the basics? Or, are you ready to move beyond those basics? Do you want to learn how to create characters who compel readers to keep reading? How about settings so vivid that the reader finds themself occupying them? And, creating dialogue which is real, so real that the reader finds her/himself having conversations with the characters.

Or, have I gotten ahead of us? Have you promised yourself for years, maybe even decades, that you would write - and haven't? Would you like a jumpstart? Let me know - and we can begin.