Sentence Magic: Elevating Your Prose in Revision

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📚 Overview

A novel’s real magic often happens after the big rewrites, in the careful shaping of each sentence. Your clarity, rhythm, and word choices will determine how readers experience your story — whether a moment lingers or falls flat. In polishing your prose, you turn a solid draft into a book readers can’t put down. In this Monday Masterclass, novelist Lori Goldstein shows you how to transform your draft line by line so every word earns its place.

Schedule

EVENT

3pm - 4pm EDT

In this hour-long session, you’ll learn practical, easy-to-apply techniques for:

Cutting filter words and weak verbs
Balancing show vs. tell at the sentence level
Crafting dialogue that crackles
Reshaping sentences for rhythm and clarity

Whether you write literary fiction, commercial thrillers, or rom-coms, strong prose is what keeps readers turning pages. Join Lori to hone your inner editor and make your story sparkle.

Speakers

Lori Goldstein

Author and Book Coach

Lori Gold is the author of ROMANTIC FRICTION (Harper Collins, 2025), a Zibby Media Summer Read and Most Anticipated Book of 2025 selection as well as an NPR Book of the Day. ROMANTIC FRICTION is her book club fiction debut, an “inside publishing” caper that sparks discussions of AI in the creative space. Her followup, KISS, MARRY, KILL, releases from Harper Collins on April 7, 2026. She is also the author of the adult historical, LOVE, THEODOSIA, and four novels for young adults (all under Lori Goldstein). She currently lives outside of Boston, where she fosters a writing community through her creative writing classes, book coaching, and writing retreats.