Exciting News!
I am going to be hosting a weekly Writer’s Workshop here on Saturdays, beginning March 7th. Please join me for a fun, challenging opportunity to stretch your writing skills in this friendly environment. I love the group at GDG! I’m thrilled to be joining you, especially in a format that explores the power of language in storytelling.
The Writer’s Workshop will stick with a single prompt response each month, limited to 150-300 words, and involve several editing challenges to the same response designed to sharpen prose. The schedule is as follows:
Week 1: The Fastball
This week, I will introduce some element of good prose and/or share encouraging words from favorite authors. Then, I will pitch the Fastball prompt. Participants can link their responses in the comments section, and I will share them the following week.
Week 2: Batting Practice
This week, I will continue the discussion and share the responses from Week 1’s Fastball.
The challenge to participants this week will be to cut at least 10% of words from their response in week 1, tighten their prose. The 10% cut comes from Stephen King’s On Writing, one of several writing books that you will hear me refer to on occasion. The cut might seem arbitrary, but it forces concision and encourages the use of powerful language.
Week 3: Curveball Challenge
And just when you think you mastered it…
This week, I will throw a curveball, a specific challenge designed to improve prose, some element to be added to the response from the Batting Practice in Week 2. We will use this challenge to explore some of the grammatical tools that can be used to create tension and drama on the sentence level in our writing.
I will also show how I handled the 10% cut from Week 2 (including my word counts) and provide links to the Week 2 responses of participants.
Week 4: Players at the Plate
I will sum up the month’s activities, show how I handled Week 3’s Curveball Challenge, and link to all the other participants’ rewrites. Writing is hard work. You can expect a lot of encouragement and praise from me along the way.
I hope you will pull up a chair and join me for the Writer’s Workshop.
Tanya
I am so excited to have you join the cafe, Tanya. Took three years to recruit you, but I think this will be an excellent thing for the community! 🤓
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Thanks for sticking with me, Stephen! I am thrilled to have this opportunity! 😘
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🤓🙏🙌👐🙌🙏🤓
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This looks different, and challenging and interesting.
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I hope you will join us!
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This is exciting, Tanya!
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Thank you, Eugi! I can’t wait to get started! 😊
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I’m soooooooo excited!
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Thank you, Donna! Me too!!!! I can’t wait to get going. 😘
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I’m excited!!!
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I can’t wait to get started! Thank you, mammasquirrel!
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FANTASTIC! I hope I don’t miss it because I do iften miss things. Will try and remember it, sounds great Tanya.
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Thank you! I can’t wait to start. Btw, don’t worry if you miss something. You can jump in anytime and participate. I will collect the comment links on Friday’s to share for my Saturday post. I hope to see you there!
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Thanks Tanya. Looking forward to it 😊
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Exciting writing workshop from Go Dog Go Cafe
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Thank you, Christine! Can’t wait to get started.
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Thank you for all your kind words, Stephen! I can’t wait to get started. Count me in for a Skype group. That sounds like fun!
The Veteran’s group sounds amazing. My dad was a Vietnam vet. He had many emotional scars from that time. The lack of support he received back in the US when he got home—came off the plane and had rocks hurled at him from protesters—was startling. It never left him. Willing to help with this in any way.
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I’m jazzed! Count me in. 🙂
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Counted! 😉
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Thank you for the share! Look forward to seeing you there!
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I’m looking forward to it too! Thanks so much!
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😊
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Something new at Go Dog Go Cafe
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Thank you so much for spreading the news! Hope to see you there!
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Most welcome
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So excited! Sounds so fun and intriguing.
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Me too! I hope to see you there, Lucy! 😊
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Thank you for sharing the news! Hope to see you there. 😊
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Hoping to be.
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It really is good to see you at the Cafe, Tanya – not least as I’ve only recently managed to find my way back! You know me, I write my way, but having said that, I’ve got to say a Workshop run by you intrigues!
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Thank you! 😘I hope you will join us, Eric!!! I am eager to get started.
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I can tell you’re eager to get started! As I say I’m intrigued!!!
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I’m looking forward to this. What a great idea. Thanks so much. ❤
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Thank you, Colleen! I am eager to get started. I hope you join us!!! ❤️
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That is my plan, Tanya. I’m ready! ❤
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💃📚🥰
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Sounds fabulous… Just what I need.. A challenge!
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I hope you will join us! 💖
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Looking forward to it. Wonderful.
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Thank you, Ian! Me too. 😊
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Ohh this will be so exciting. So looking forward to it Tanya,
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Thank you so much, Megha! I am eager to get started!
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Exciting news happening at the Cafe. Join us on March 7 for a Prose writing workshop hosted by the talented Tanya Cliff.
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Thanks for spreading the news, Megha! ❤️
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I am excited to expand my learning in this new direction!
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Thank you for spreading the news! Excited that you are joining us!
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Grateful for you, Stephen! 😘
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