How To Write Forceful Prose with Author Timothy Sheard - Book Talks with Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab

<p>“A distillation of my 30 years mentoring and editing authors of all kinds, this little book will show you how to tell your story in tight, addictive prose.”</p> <p>Veteran nurse Timothy Sheard is a writer, publisher, mentor to writers and union organizer with the <a href='https://nwu.org/'>National Writers Union</a>, UAW Local 1-9-8-1. </p> <p>Timothy has written 9 mystery novels featuring hospital custodian-shop steward<a href='https://hardballpress.com/lenny-moss-mysteries.html'> Lenny Moss,</a> 2 stand alone crime novels, and he is the founder of Hard Ball Press to help working class people write and publish their stories, publishing over 200 authors. </p> <p>We discuss his new book, How to Write Forceful Prose.</p> <p>Excerpts</p> <p>When you are thinking about how you are going to craft a scene, hold your hands up and make a square with your thumb and fingers, as if you are framing a shot for a film you are directing.</p> <p>What do you see in the scene?</p> <p>More importantly, what do you hear? Taste? Smell? Feel? Sense? The writer is directing a film that we, the reader run in our minds: give the reader lots of things to see and hear and sense, they anchor the scene…</p> <p>I wrote a short crime story set in a New York City subway. As the main character stands on the cement platform, he feels a vibration in his feet as the approaching train shakes the surface, then he sees the lights and hears the wheels on the tracks.</p> <p>Check out the catalogue at <a href='https://hardballpress.com/'>HARD BALL & LITTLE HEROES PRESS - Stories To Change the World</a> (<a href='https://hardballpress.com/index.html'>https://hardballpress.com/index.html</a>) and support writers creating working class stories.</p> <p>Resources for Writers</p> <p>National Writers Union (<a href='http://www.nwu.org'>www.NWU.org</a>) represents all freelance writers in all genres and all platforms (including those who write computer code, advertising copy ─ all writing. They advocate for and defend the rights of writers to negotiate and en