Lit Fest - Lighthouse Writers Workshop 2026

Sentences in fiction are subject to different demands than sentences in nonfiction, and thus (perhaps) must be constructed and revised differently. In this multi-hour live-edit session, we'll collectively play with various sentences and paragraphs as a means of exploring this idea, beginning with a sentence that every typist knows by heart, then mauling passages from some famous/infamous works, and concluding with examples submitted by participants (from their own work or from well-known writers, preferably dead). Where, exactly, we go will be driven by the examples selected and the questions that arise. Emphasis will be on exploring the phenomenal plasticity of language, design tradeoffs in sentence structure, and the cognitive processes involved in reading, rather than issues of correctness, style, or rhetorical strategy.