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Margie Lawson Spring Workshop
The Strategic Power of Deep Editing!
Learn my psychologically-based deep editing and you’ll power your writing and your scenes with emotion.
This webinar covers:
- Deep Editing Tools
- Margie’s Four Levels of Amplification
- Effective stimulus response patterns
- Writing fresh faces and voices and visceral responses
- Emotional Impact on the POV Character
Join me, and you’ll make your writing NYT Bestseller strong!
Margie Lawson left a career in psychology to focus on another passion—helping writers make their writing bestseller strong. Using a psychologically-based deep editing approach, Margie teaches writers how to bring emotion to the page. Emotion equals power. Power grabs readers and holds onto them until the end. Hundreds of Margie grads have gone on to win awards, find agents, sign with publishers, and hit bestseller lists. Several have had their books turned into movies, and a few have drama series in development.
A popular international presenter, Margie taught over 150 full day master classes in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and France, as well as multi-day intensives on cruise ships in the Caribbean. She’s taught close to 200 5-day Immersion Master Classes across the U.S. and Canada, and in seven cities in Australia too.
She also founded Lawson Writer’s Academy, where you’ll find over 30 instructors teaching online courses through her website. To learn more and sign up for Margie’s newsletter, visit www.margielawson.com.
Speaker: Saturday, March 25
Our speaker will be Michael Dooley from the Department of English and Languages at Tarleton State University.
Meeting: Hood County Library, Pecan Room, 10:00 a.m.
His intended topics are creating characters that people want to return to over and over, using appropriate dialect (correct in region and time). Also, the importance of research for faithfulness to actuality in plot construction.
Mr. Dooley’s CV:
-born and raised in South Florida
–grew up as a swamp stomper, beach bum, and traveler of this great country in a VW Beetle along with a German Shepherd named Emmylou
–spent 25 years as a carpet installer before finishing college
–currently in the 22nd year as an Assistant Professor of Composition and Research and Literature at Tarleton State University
–presented at regional and national creative writing conferences and festivals, original fiction for more than ten years, including for many years at Langdon Review of the Arts in Granbury, Texas
–published two collections of short stories—As the Wave Rose: Florida Tales and other Wandering Stories (2020) and The Water Stop Saloon: More Wandering Tales (2022), both published by Fine Dog Press
–currently working on a noir mystery entitled Murder at the Pennsylvania Hotel (hopefully released at the end of summer 2023)
–married to Kelli for close to 42 years now, one son and daughter-in-law, one granddaughter and one on the way, a smart Blue Healer, a cat that comes when you whistle, and a longhorn named Tip
Spring Writers Workshop
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Writing Retreat
Schedule: February – April 2023
GWB Meeting February 25: Hood County Library
Our next meeting will convene in the 1st floor Pecan Room at the Hood County Library on Saturday, February 25th, a few minutes after 10:00 a.m. The Library opens at 10:00 a.m.
Our speaker will be Dr. Jake Brewer.
Topics: Workflow, in and out of one’s genre, and the relationship between plot and causality.
Bio:
I completed my undergraduate degree in English Literature, Creative Writing, and Film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned my Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Oklahoma State University. My doctoral studies were completed at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Now I’m at Tarleton State as an Assistant Professor of English, where I teach creative writing (especially fiction), renaissance literature, and film. My short fiction has been published in F(r)iction, The Hunger, and most recently on the podcast Tales to Terrify.
GWB Meeting January 23, 2023
Laura Drake, a well published author, will speak Monday night, the 23rd of January at the Langdon Center Studios.
You’ve all heard of, ‘show don’t tell’, but there’s an even deeper point of view – Immersive Point of View. Laura attended a week-long intensive with the Agent and author, Donald Maass in September, and she’s going to pass on what she learned.
Come with paper and pen – there will be exercises!
Bio:
Laura Drake is a New York and self-published published author of Women’s Fiction and Romance.
Her romance series, Sweet on a Cowboy, is set in the world of professional bull riding. Her debut, The Sweet Spot, was a double-finalist, then won the 2014 Romance Writers of America® RITA® award. She’s since published 11 more books and is under contract for two more. She is a founding member of Women’s Fiction Writers Assn, Writers in the Storm blog, as well as a member of Western Writers of America and Women Writing the West.
Laura is a city girl who never grew out of her tomboy ways, or a serious cowboy crush. She gave up the corporate CFO gig to write full time. She realized a lifelong dream of becoming a Texan and is currently working on her accent. She’s a wife, grandmother, and motorcycle chick in the remaining waking hours.
www.lauradrakebooks.com
Meeting Schedule for January and February
