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Avoiding the Syntax Sin Tax

10:00

Are your words weak? Does your prose lack pizzazz?  A little onomatopoeia can add a lot of KAPOW.  Author Constance Hale says that a well-placed simile lifts writing off the page like a big...lift-off helper. She'll discuss the musicality of language and how to get over commitment phobia when choosing interjections--gasp!--and verbs.

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