March Online Writing Workshops
Learning the Craft:
TITLE: Empowering Characters’ Emotions
DATE: March 2008 (Registration Deadline Feb 27th)
INSTRUCTOR: Margie Lawson
COST: Cost of each workshop is $15.00 US for KOD members, $30.00 US for non-KOD members. (RWA membership NOT required)
Margie Lawson, a counseling psychologist, developed innovative psychologically-anchored editing systems and techniques that will teach you how to write a page-turner. Margie has taught a dozen on-line courses and presented full-day Master Classes in over thirty cities across the U.S and Canada. Margie will cover the following topics and more: The EDITS System, Emotional authenticity, Basic, complex, empowered, and super empowered passages, The Full Range of Body Language, Backloading, Writing fresh, Projecting Emotion for a Non-POV character.
Margie’s resume includes college professor, clinical trainer, sex therapist, Director of an Impotence Clinic, hypnotherapist, and keynote speaker. She presents 1) Empowering Characters’ Emotions, 2) Deep Editing: The EDITS System, Rhetorical Devices, and More, and 3) Defeat Self-Defeating Behaviors in one and two day master classes.
TITLE: First Drafts, Outlining Your Novel
DATE: March 1 – 15, 2008 (Registration Deadline Feb 25th)
INSTRUCTOR: T.L. Gray
COST: $15 for CRW and Heart of Carolina Romance Writers members, $20 for all others.
Outlines aren’t just for plotters! Pansters can also benefit from this workshop full of tools and tips to quickly organize, set goals, and outline your novel. It can also help revise an outline on a novel already in progress and aid in spotting and eliminating potential problems in a stalled project. Detailed worksheets can be tailored to your specific needs and will help keep you on track and away from writer’s block. You’ll save time and become much more productive.
Award-winning author T. L. Gray writes single title contemporary and romantic suspense for Cerridwen Press, the mainstream arm of Ellora’s Cave. She also teaches writing courses for Jefferson County Public Schools Adult Education program. She’s given workshops at RWA National and online classes for various RWA chapters. Currently, she’s working on a series for Cerridwen featuring Delta Force Heroes. Watch for her next romantic suspense, SAINT, in 2008. You can visit her at www.TL-Gray.com.
TITLE: Regency Miscellany: The Fascinating world of England in the early 19th century (1798-1822)
DATE: March 3 – April 4, 2008 (Registration Deadline March 2nd)
INSTRUCTOR: Nancy Mayer
COST: $15 Outreach Member/Others $25
Though some of the basics of the period, England in the early 19th century (1789-1822), will be covered, new material will also be presented as well as a new perspective on some older material. The workshop will also include the use of Google books. Questions are welcome as are suggestions as to what subjects would be of most interest.
Nancy Mayer has been studying the Regency world for more than a decade and always finding more and more interesting facets to be uncovered. Nancy was invited to give a talk on Regency Marriage at the BeauMonde Convention in 2005 and expanded the talk into a workshop on getting into and out of Marriage Across the ages which was presented by HHRW chapter. She has given other workshops for both BeauMonde and HHRW including Regency 101, WHO’s who and what’s what of Regency England, Errors to Avoid in writing a Regency, Food in the Regency. Nancy owns many books on the Regency period as well as some published in the years from 1800-1824. She also owns a dance book and several newspapers.
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