Eastlake, CO 80614-0448
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P.O. Box 448 Eastlake, CO 80614-0448 |
CRW meets the second Saturday of every month
Meeting and luncheon begin at noon. |
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September 12, 2009 - Writing a Series with Elaine Levine & Melissa MayhueBOOKTALK: Nothing But Scandal by Allegra GrayWORKSHOP: Writing a Series with Elaine Levine & Melissa Mayhue October 10, 2009 - Reader Appreciation TeaNovember 14, 2009 - Crime Scene InvestigationsDecember -- Christmas Party |
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January 9th, 2010 – Writing Body Language Like a Psychologist & It’s How You Say It: Powering Up Dialogue Cues with Margie LawsonWriting Body Language and Dialogue Cues Like a PsychologistBy Margie Lawson Powering Up Body Language: Learn how to write body language from a kinesics specialist. This workshop explores how to write fresh: • Facial expressions: lips, eyes, chin, full face, flicker-face, macro- and micro-expressions • Kinesics: communicating by body movement • Proxemics: communicating by body positioning • Haptics: communication by touch • Tells: unconscious signals that communicate anxiety, aversion, and deception • Gesture Types: emblems, illustrators, regulators, beat gestures, affect displays • Body Language Clusters Powering Up Dialogue Cues: This workshop explores the world of writing dialogue cues—how the writer describes how the dialogue is delivered. Dialogue cues are one part of writing nonverbal communication. They’re one part writers often overlook. Writers fall into using the same type of words, the same patterns, the same style. Workshop participants will learn how to add write dialogue cues using tone, volume, inflection, pitch, quality, and rate of speech. Write Body Language and Dialogue Cues with Psychological Power: • Avoid clichés and write fresh • Use Margie’s Four Levels: Basic, Complex, Empowered, Super Empowered • Use a range of rhetorical devices • Use stimulus/response patterns • Strengthen an Emotional Response • Create Hyphenated-run-ons • Create Scene-themed, Setting-themed, Character-themed Teaching points will be illustrated with examples from pre-published, debut, and bestselling authors. Their excerpts will be deep edited, dissected, and analyzed. BIO: Margie Lawson—psychotherapist, writer, and international presenter – applied her psychological expertise to dissect and analyze hundreds of novels. Margie taught psychology and communication courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. Her resume includes clinical trainer, professor, sex therapist, director of a counseling center, hypnotherapist, and trauma specialist. February 13th, 2010 - "Daily Life in the Middle Ages" with Allegra GrayLearn how to add authenticity to your historical manuscript by learning how people really lived in the middle ages. Multimedia workshop covers opics such as personal hygiene, food preservation and preparation, entertainment and pastimes, even plumbing and city sanitation. Bust through myths and common misperceptions (bathing was more common than you might think!) and create a medieval backdrop with the richness your story deserves.BIO: Allegra Gray is a former military officer--turned English professor--turned homeland defense analyst. One thing she has always been, though, is a storyteller. Allegra wrote her first book at the age of 5 (it has yet to be published). MarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember |
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