Margie Lawson
Changing your Writing World
You know the feeling – when you start a book and immediately suspend disbelief to fall into the story world. As authors, we know that this isn’t easy to do. It takes more than a good scene. It takes a maestro of craft to pull it off.
This is a writing master class. If you’re past problems with POV, character development and stage direction, this class will help you understand the subtle nuances that can be the difference between a ‘good writer’ and a popular author.
Every lesson comes with reference material; great blogs and articles explaining salient points.
Every lesson has Homework. We'll be posting our beginnings, giving, receiving feedback, and revising.
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.
This class served as a great reminder of all the little things I should know but consistently forget. Nice structure, with great feedback. (Now I just have to apply all this to the whole dang manuscript!!)
Loved the Advanced Craft Workshop. Your instruction and the interaction with the other students provided me with the insight I needed to kick my manuscript off with the power I was looking for.
I'm so grateful to Laura for the masterful way she selected key elements to focus on, rather than trying to cover too much or to promote a particular template. Each lesson focused on vital, precise, and practical elements that could be explored in our own work. Her suggestions were clear and so, so helpful, but always left space. I felt respected, supported, and inspired. And I've signed up for her next course!
My stories lacked the punch I wanted them to have. As soon as I saw it I knew I needed to take this class. I wasn't disappointed and I was impressed. Laura Drake knew where to take the class at each step of the way. Timely and to the point individualized feedback was more than I expected.
The very first lesson helped me identify a critical change I wanted to make in my style of writing. Learning from a successful published author made a large difference in my enjoyment of the class. It also helped me realize why I would read her books but set down others that were in the same genre.
I would recommend Laura's class to anyone wanting to make a difference in their writing. Right now, I am considering using the new methods and taking the class again in about 6 months. Because of the personalized feedback and the interactions with class members, it will be a whole new class.
Laura packs a lot into a couple short weeks. The class required quite a bit of time and effort, but it was well worth it. The concepts we learned, and especially the feedback I got from Laura and my classmates, opened my eyes to several big ways to make my writing fresher, more powerful, and much more efficient. I saw huge improvements in my own writing and that of my classmates, sometimes in a matter of days. I wasn't sure at first how helpful this class would be, but I'm so glad I did it--it delivered even more than I hoped.
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