With humor and clear examples, experienced editor and award-winning author Patricia Alexander will inspire you to make your next draft stronger and more effective to your purpose. By identifying the same elements looked for by professional editors, she will help you evaluate your own often invisible writing habits, useful and not useful. Gain new skills to create clarity, elegance, and power in your writing and explore how to make your next rewrite more effective, require less editing, and ways to become more desirable to publishers and readers.
DATES: Friday, September 25, 2026
TIME: 9:00am-12:00pm
FEE: $150
LOCATION: San Luis Obispo Campus Room TBD
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Patricia Alexander |
Patricia Alexander calls her 50-year career “highly eclectic” and fulfilling. She is gratified to present a laundry list of accomplishments: line editor, award-winning author, columnist, journalist, teacher, workshop leader, inspirational speaker, and humorist. Now living in Paso Robles, Patricia was born and raised in Los Angeles. That’s where she stumbled into her first writing job in 1976 working for Rona Barrett on Good Morning, America. Patricia went on from there to write and edit for animation, advertising, public relations and marketing, while freelancing dozens of articles to magazines and newspapers. Eventually she became a personal-perspective columnist for the Ventura County Reporter. Along the way, she started up Writing Support Groups, fulfilling her passion to help other writers work on and complete their projects, while guiding them through writing, rewriting, publishing, and marketing. Semi-retired, Patricia currently takes great joy in being a freelance line editor and a fulltime health nut.
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