Get Psyched about Writing Subtext, and you’ll see what to do to with Subtext!

Want to learn how to take a scene from the POV character’s head to the reader’s heart?

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The EDITS System is a tool I created for writers to analyze scene components. It’s the ultimate show-don’t-tell power tool!

Emotion sells books. Fresh writing sells books. Putting more power on the page sells books.

Let me help you sell more books!

Give me 90 minutes and I’ll share five ways to help you ramp up your writing to NYT stellar!

Want to learn how to take a scene from the POV character’s head to the reader’s heart?

Grab this webinar!

The EDITS System is a tool I created for writers to analyze scene components. It’s the ultimate show-don’t-tell power tool!

Want to learn how to take a scene from the POV character’s head to the reader’s heart?

Grab this webinar!

The EDITS System is a tool I created for writers to analyze scene components. It’s the ultimate show-don’t-tell power tool!

You need to share all sorts of details to make scenes and characters real. But you also need to pick up pace, keep the story moving. Give me 90 minutes, and I'll share a dozen times when you need to amplify and a dozen times when you need to cut.

This isn’t your typical webinar on how to write dialogue. I always think like a psychologist. And I’ll help you think like a psychologist and make your dialogue super-strong. You’ll see lots of items on my 25-point checklist that I’m betting you’ve never considered. And they’re critical. But you have to register for the webinar […]

Learn my Four Levels of Powering Up Emotion, lock in the reader’s emotions, add power to openings and high emotion scenes!

Fiction writers need superpowers. Let creative imagery become one of yours!

You know your story needs tension, ideally tension on every page.

Want to learn how to optimize tension with body language and visceral responses?

Want to learn how to be strategic with style and structure so your tension carries the most power?

Learn unexpected ways to freshen your ideas and your writing with deep edit expert and creative psychologist, Margie Lawson. Margie will teach you how to see your scenes, notice things you’ve missed, feel your POV character’s emotions, and share what you've learned on the page in powerful ways.

You can make a sell-more-books difference if you’re strategic on every page.

Learn Margie’s Top 8 Ways to be Strategic with Style and Structure:

1. Add power to high emotion scenes and turning points.
2. Create a sense of urgency and increase tension.
3. Boost style and make the reader smile.
4. Make openings and endings pop.
5. Deepen characterization.
6. Slip in the POV character’s age and other hits of backstory
7. Theme to make your writing cool and help you write NYT-fresh!
8. Give your writing a boost with power words and backloading and switchback lines.

Silence happens—in real life and on the page. But sometimes when writers share silence on the page it’s blah-blah bland. Powerless. It’s stated, then the scene continues.

But in real life, what happens when a room goes silent?

How you convey silence on the page needs to be fresh and powerful.

1. Learn Margie's DUH Plan, then grin and commit.
2. Learn The Six Stages of Change and where you get stuck.
3. Learn your strengths and how to use them.
4. Do Margie's 'Who Are You?' exercise and love who you are.
5. Make your WIS-SIC Plan and take charge of each day.