12-step program for writers: How to SHOW, How to NOT Tell

Aspiring authors hear it all the time: Show, don’t tell. Suzann Ledbetter Ellingsworth will take that admonishment to the next level with her 12-step program entitled “How to SHOW, How to NOT Tell.”

As part of the St. Louis Writers Guild’s monthly series, Workshops for Writers, Suzann will speak from 10 a.m. to noon, April 6, at the Kirkwood Community Center, 111 S. Geyer Road in Kirkwood. The workshop is free to Guild members or $5 for nonmembers.

Suzann is multi-published, fiction and nonfiction writer and an editor--in her parlance, a wreditor. She is a Writers Hall of Fame of America inductee, past faculty member for Washington University's Summer Institute, and a contributing editor for Family Circle magazine for a decade. 

By Suzann's definition, wrediting is an editing perspective evolved from experience on both sides of traditional publishing: as a writer undergoing the editorial process, and as an editor teaming with writers to bring their stories to compelling life. Teaching is the core of her private client editing process. Suzann’s unique techniques will hone and polish a current project, and pay dividends applicable to future ones, too. Learn more at her website, www.TheWalkingDeadline.com. 

Writing as Suzann Ledbetter, her light-hearted Hannah Garvey mysteries follow the exploits of resident manager for the exclusive retirement community of Valhalla Springs. Hannah is up to any challenge life throws her way -- which, lately, is usually a corpse. Suzann’s currently digitizing an ebook sequel to A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves.

Find out more about the St. Louis Writers Guild and upcoming activities at www.stlwritersguild.net.