May 1 - 29, 2009
"Digging Deep into the EDITS System"
by Margie Lawson
This two week in-depth view of Margie Lawson's EDITS System will teach you how to edit what you have on the page, and how to see what's missing. Learn how to analyze your scenes and add power with emotion that hooks the reader viscerally.
Digging Deep into the EDITS System will cover:
* The Big Picture and the Nuances of the EDITS System
* Writing Emotion for Visceral Impact
* Streaming Emotion for your genre and style
* Editing Patterns and Voids
* Scene Strategies: Balancing and Tracking
* Applying the EDITS System to your work -- and to examples from award-winning authors
* Simplifying the EDITS System: Writing to the EDITS Colors
* Tension, Conflict, and The EDITS System
Margie Lawson, a practicing psychologist, has developed innovative psychologically-anchored editing systems and techniques that teach writers how to write a page-turner. She teaches on-line and presents full day master classes. Her schedule for 2008 includes presenting in Columbus, Houston, Shreveport, Syracuse, Tacoma, Washington DC area, Detroit, Fort Worth, Denver, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Madison. Overseas, she’ll present full-day master classes in Auckland, New Zealand and Melbourne, Australia .
Margie also teaches: Empowering Characters’ Emotions, Rhetorical Devices, and More, and Defeat Self-Defeating Behaviors. For more information, visit her web site at www.MargieLawson.com.
To register for the "Digging Deep into the EDITS System" course, click HERE.