Course Catalog - Margie Lawson

Diving Deep into Developmental Edits

Your words shine and each line glisten. But you’re still getting rejections! Pantsers and plotters, at some point you’re going to have to step back …

Five-Week First Draft

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Advanced Craft

You know the feeling – when you start a book and immediately suspend disbelief to fall into the story world. As authors, we know that …

Fab 30 - Advanced Deep Editing, A Master Class

Three Prerequisites, Online Courses or Lecture Packets: Empowering Characters' EmotionsDeep Editing: The EDITS System, Rhetorical Devices, and MoreWriting Body Language and Dialogue Cues Like a Psychologist Fab …

The Psychology of Black Characters - historical version

At Point Comfort in 1619, more than a dozen enslaved Black men were bought to the shores of Virginia and the history of Blackness in …

Emotional Connections: Character Names and Psychologically Empowered Backstory - a Two Week Intensive

Kendrick Lamar said, "If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with a name." Twenty-first century audiences demand deep, emotional connections with characters. …

New Class! Make your endings pop with Margie Lawson

Make Endings Pop! Deep Editing Style

Don't settle for nice! Don't settle for anything less than Wow!

Mastering Point of View with Shirley Jump

Mastering POV

This hands-on class helps writers understand how POV works, which POV to use based on the book, characters, and their author goals, and how to …

Taking a Book from Good to Sold

For first-time authors, the biggest hurdle to selling is learning how to craft a book that is better than good. Good wins contests. Good gets …

Writing Thrillers and Other Dangerous Novels

Want to write a New York Times Bestseller? Thrillers, mysteries, and suspense novels consistently rank in the top 25 books on the NYT bestseller list. Some of …

Getting Serious about Writing a Series

Learn the musts of writing a series! In this course, you will design your series bible, create the eleven items it must include (listed below), and …

Fantastic Castles and Horrible Hovels

Castles cover the landscape of Europe. Many have lasted because they are built of stone, but it takes some imagination to see how they looked …

Margie Lawson

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