Dates: March 2 - 30
'What's The Buzz' about Margie's Courses and Presentations
Empowering Characters' Emotions is offered through Lawson Writer's Academy.
After paying for the course, you will receive an email within 48 hours to confirm and complete your registration.
If you prefer to pay by check please contact Margie for a mailing address.
If you have questions, please ask!
Course Description: Empowering Characters' Emotions
Want to add a psychological punch to your writing and editing?
Want to learn how to capture the full range of body language on the page?
Want to turn your work into a page-turner by powering up emotion and hooking the reader viscerally?
The 300+ pages of lectures will cover the following topics - and more:
• The EDITS System
• Four Levels of Powering Up Emotion
• Overview of Body Language and Dialogue Cues
• Top Ten Rhetorical Devices for Fiction Wrters
• Fresh Visceral Responses
• Cliché-busting
• Motivation Reaction Units
• Ideomotoric shifts
• Subtext Power
• Emotional Authenticity
• Backstory Management
• Emotional Hits
• Deep Editing techniques
• Rhythm and Cadence and Beats
Margie Lawson—psychotherapist, writer, and international presenter – developed psychologically-based editing systems and deep editing techniques used by new writers to multi-award winning authors. She teaches writers how to add psychological power to create page turners.
Margie taught psychology and communication courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. Her resume includes adjunct professor, clinical trainer, facilitator of trauma response sessions, and director of a counseling center.
In the last six years Margie presented over sixty full day Master Classes. She taught her psychologically-anchored deep editing to over five thousand writers across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Margie created six in-demand on-line courses:
1. Empowering Characters' Emotions
2. Deep Editing: The EDITS System, Rhetorical Devices, and More
3. Digging Deep into the EDITS System
4. Defeat Self-Defeating Behaviors
5. Writing Body Language and Dialogue Cues Like a Psychologist
6. Powering Up Body Language in Real Life: Projecting a Professional Persona When Pitching and Presenting
Writers who have studied Margie's material credit her innovative editing approaches with taking their writing several levels higher—to publication, awards, and bestseller lists.
To learn about Margie’s 3-day Immersion Master Classes, Write At Sea Cruise, full day Master Class presentations, on-line course schedule, Lecture Packets, and newsletter, check out the Home Page of her web site.
'What's The Buzz' about Margie's Courses and Presentations
Allison Brennan, NYT Bestseller:
Margie Lawson, a brilliant psychologist, teaches a class on editing that, ahem, truly tested me. She uses color-coding to dissect writing in order to empower your stories. Yes, color-coding. But I learned from Margie how to fix my prose. When I edit, I usually read out loud--and sometimes, the rhythm is off but I don't know why. While I don't get out my highlighter and start marking up my manuscript, I think about her system, advice on weak words, unnecessary repetition, and finding the emotional key of the scene. I was able to absorb her lectures and use the lessons that fit in with my writing style.
Randy Ingermanson, Ph. D., award-winning author of WRITING FICTION FOR DUMMIES:
In the twenty years I've been writing fiction, two teachers have astounded me with their insights and taught me something radically new: Dwight Swain and Margie Lawson.
After reading Margie's material on nonverbal communication and empowering characters’ emotions, something clicked in my brain. Margie taught me new ways to empower my writing.
Karin Tabke, Bestselling author:
I had so many epiphany moments Saturday my head was twitching. It’s still twitching! I wish I had attended Margie’s Empowering Characters’ Emotions master class earlier. My writing is stronger, more vivid, more emotional. The effects of the workshop were immediate. I highly recommend if you have the opportunity to take Margie’s workshop in person, do it.
Marie-Claude Bourque, American Title V WINNER:
I bought Margie's DEEP EDITING Lecture Packet when I was 1/3 into editing ANCIENT WHISPERS. After I used her EDITS System and did some Deep Editing, my critique partners couldn't believe the changes in my writing. I have to say that my entire manuscript was Deep Edited before I entered the American Title Contest. I won the American Title V with my first manuscript.
Colleen Coble, CEO of ACFW and Bestselling author:
“The workshop I went to last month was the best I've ever been to, bar none. And I've been to plenty. Margie's workshop was so awesome, I'm going over my notes from what she taught before I start my next book. She's a genius, pure and simple."
Melanie Milburne, Bestselling, Award Winning author:
I just sold my 31st title and my editor loved the book. She thought I had written a really sophisticated story with powerful emotion. So thank you Margie!
I have worked my way through Margie’s Empowering Characters’ Emotions, and Deep Editing Lecture Packets, and found them wonderful. Her deep editing techniques have really lifted my writing. It’s so exciting working on each new novel now knowing I have these amazing techniques to engage the reader in a more emotionally satisfying way. Thank you again, Margie!
Jeri Smith-Ready, Bestselling author:
I owe it all to Margie Lawson (and my editor) for helping me whip WICKED GAME into shape. I used her Empowering Characters’ Emotions and Deep Editing lectures as my bible for the final drafts of WICKED GAME and my previous novel, VOICE OF CROW. I am so grateful I discovered Margie’s editing expertise. I can't say enough about what a difference it made to have Margie’s 'voice' pushing me to make each word count and each sentence pop!
Cheryl Wyatt, Award Winning author:
“I LOVED Margie Lawson's class. WOW. WOW. WOW. Wish I would have discovered her sooner. Fabulous. My writing will soar to the next level. She's an incredible teacher and such a fun teacher. Great lady. I plan to take all her online courses.”
At the Steeple Hill spotlight, at the RWA National conference, editors Krista Stroever and Melissa Endlich mentioned my books. They talked about how my writing has a depth of emotion that makes them cry. They said that's the kind of emotive writing they want to see from authors trying to break in.
Margie, I know I have you to thank for the strong core of emotion that people say are in my books. Thank you for bringing your wealth of knowledge and sharing with us. You truly are amazing.
Linda Warren, Award Winning Best-selling author:
I'm thoroughly enjoying your Deep Editing lectures. And learning. I feel as if I've been writing in the dark. All of a sudden you've turned on the light and my weak and dull writing is transformed into powerful and fresh. I love it! As an author I get tired of the "thumping" "pounding" heart. "Lifted" "raised" eyebrow, too.
After your full day Empowering Characters’ Emotions master class at NOLA Stars, I wrote this line: “She cocked her eyebrow with the power of a .38 special.”
As I told you in Shreveport, I've never taken a workshop because getting around is so hard for me. I'm glad I waited for a Margie Lawson master class to begin to learn about the power of words, the power of writing. You’re brilliant.
CJ Lyons, Award Winning author:
Margie's Empowering Characters' Emotions and Deep Editing classes not only helped me to get in touch with my characters' visceral reactions, they also showed me ways to use my characters' emotions to drive my plots in compelling and evocative new directions!
Lyn Cote, Bestselling author:
I love a teacher who knows how to break down the individual skills and content in order to put into practice what is being taught. I've taken Margie's Character Emotion and EDITS classes and have used them ever since.
Margie's lessons are always practical and make such a difference! If you haven't taken them and implemented them, YOU SHOULD. “
Devon Gray, Wild Rose Press, bestselling author
WOW! I'm not anywhere close to finishing your courses and already it has made a tremendous difference in my writing. The EDITS system is pure brilliance! Just what I needed to help me see the weak areas of my manuscript.
I know moving forward I will write differently. I can't wait to finish reading all the materials. Then I'll read them again! Thank you so much for sharing your talent.
Nicola Marsh, author of sassy, sexy romance for Harlequin Romance and Presents:
Once again a heartfelt thank you for your brilliant course. I'm singing your praises (cliché alert!) to every writer I know :) Your 'Deep Editing' course gave me the opportunity to take my writing to the next level. Enlightening. Informative. Brilliant. Can't recommend it highly enough.
