The day job / professional Margie: 
My day job hats have included: college professor, clinical trainer, sex therapist, Director of an Impotence Clinic, hypnotherapist, and Director of an Employee Assistance Program. I hold a Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology with an additional two year post-masters specialization in psychiatric counseling and marriage and family therapy.
The weekends and evenings Margie:
I love being creative in all areas. I love being silly, too.
I’m fascinated with the psychology of writing. I have the best time unraveling and weaving to understand the psychological nuances of writing craft.
I’m a ham. I like to energize groups when presenting workshops. I energize them, they energize me. My brain cells are zapping. I’m happy.
Conversely, I can be happy spending days writing, clamoring around inside my characters’ heads. I love strategizing how to empower emotion, pick up pace, and add psychological power.
My motto: Every day, every hour, follow your map to success.
Of course, that implies that you define what success is for you, and create a map. That’s what Defeat Self-Defeating Behaviors is about. Analyze. Learn. Map. Do . . . and Celebrate.
I cherish being close to my family. My husband is my best friend, as well as the best small plane pilot in the world. I entrust my life to his flight training, his intellect, his reflexes, his attention to detail when building our plane (!) – and I know he’ll keep me safe.
Our audio engineer son, and actress/writer daughter, both live mega-creative lives, honor friends and family, and make us proud.
Many weekends and evenings, I’m focused on presenting master classes, teaching on-line courses, and writing fiction and nonfiction.
When I’m not immersed in my writing world, I’m likely hiking in the National Forest Land adjacent to our log home, enjoying friends and family, or flying in our small plane or a commercial plane, anywhere or nowhere – and loving it all.
My favorite hobby – collecting amazing friends around the world.
About Writing:
I am fascinated with the emotive power of words. When a scene grabs me, I analyze it, dissect it, figure out what the author did that worked.
How can writers 'up' the emotive power of their work? By tuning in to the nuances of their characters’ nonverbal communication. By writing visceral emotion and body language to strengthen subconscious connections with the reader. By editing deep. By writing fresh.
Writers work to capture the perfect balance of dialogue, visceral emotion, body language, action, setting, internalizations, and tension for each scene. The goal is to entrance the reader, lead them into your fictional world, and make them beg to stay.
Writing . . . you’ve got to love the challenge.
If you would like a hint of what I teach writers, visit my DEEP EDITING POWER page, and read my analysis of excerpts from bestselling authors. You can also read about my contest. Enter the contest, and you'll be eligible to win one of my Lecture Packets.
Ah -- my Lecture Packets. With over 250 pages of lectures in each Lecture Packets , you'll have another challenge. ;-)))
