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Eight Musts for Writing Visceral Responses Part 2!
Tired of using cliched, overused, carry-no-power visceral responses?
I'll continue covering the eight musts in this webinar will give you the boost you need!
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Get Psyched about Writing Subtext!

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

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In-Depth Scene Analysis with the EDITS System

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!

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Make Characters’ Personalities Pop with the Style Survey! 

Make Characters’ Personalities Pop with the Style Survey! 

Take this personality assessment for each of your main characters, and yourself!

You’ll learn how to analyze personality profiles and how to use the results to:

  • Add emotion
  • Add tension
  • Deepen characterization
  • Complicate relationships
  • Motivate their behavior for emotional authenticity
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Margie's Top 5 Tips for Writing Fresh Character Descriptions
Margie's Top 5 Tips for Writing Fresh Character Descriptions
Every character description is an opportunity to deepen characterization, to slip in something powerful, to wow your readers.  And who doesn't want to impress their readers?
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Ramping Up your Writing to NYT Stellar!

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!

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The EDITS System, Your Scene Analysis 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!

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Those Devilish Details: When to Amplify, When to Cut

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.

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Eight Musts for Writing Visceral Responses
Tired of using cliched, overused, carry-no-power visceral responses?
The eight musts I cover in this webinar will give you the info and boost you need!
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Margie's 25 Point Dynamic Dialogue Checklist

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 […]

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Four Levels of Powering Up Emotion

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

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Creative Imagery: A New Superpower for Writers

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

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Tracking Tension and the Fizzle Factor

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?

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Fast-Track Your Creativity

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.

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Get Strategic with Style and Structure!

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.
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Making Silence Boom!

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.

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