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VIRTUAL: Creative Writing Tools: The Ladder of Abstraction with Peter Lucier

Location: Virtual Event - Zoom

Date: Tuesday, June 30

Time: 1900 ET

Cost: Free

Type: Open, Zoom Meeting.

Details: Show me what that looks like. Tell me what that means.


Boost your creative and professional writing by moving up and down what S. I. Hayakawa called "The Ladder of Abstraction." Write better sentences by learning how to zoom in on concrete, visceral, details, then zoom out to tell the reader what those details mean.

Peter Lucier is a Marine veteran, taught high school English, and has published personal essays and op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other outlets.

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