Margie Lawson
Make your writing soar
Immersion Master Classes are going virtual. In-person or virtual immersions. Two awesome options to do an intensive class with Margie.
Virtual Immersions are limited to six writers. Two full days or four half-days. And one on one deep editing with Margie too.
Six writers. Digging deep. Making their writing NYT strong!
Margie Lawson’s Immersion Master Classes will help you transform your manuscript into a page-turner!
In the last eleven years Margie has taught over 160 Immersion Master Classes.
Participants analyze and apply Deep Editing strategies to their scenes in layers, with hands-on direction and Deep Editing critique from Margie.
No travel. No airfare. Just two full days or four half-days of deep editing. You, your manuscript, a small group of committed authors, and Margie!
*NOTE: if you cancel more than 2 months before the class starts, you will receive a full refund.
America/Denver Margie Time
America/New York
Australia/Sydney
Mornings: Margie Teaches Class
Afternoons: One on one deep editing with Margie with group time between editing sessions.
***IMPORTANT NOTE***
Attending a full day master class does not meet the prerequisites.
You must take the on-line courses or complete the lecture packets.
*** ADVANCED IMMERSION REQUIREMENTS ***
Must be an in-person or virtual immersion grad
Want to have a virtual immersion with just your writing friends and critique buddies?
Want to attend or set up an Advanced Virtual Immersion?
This is the third of Margie’s Lecture series that I’ve investing in since I discovered her (Thank you Becca.) And, not to should on you, but… these are literarally the best litarary writing courses I’ve found. (see what I did there, Margie?) Margie explains how to power-up your writing clearly and simply and uses repetition and rhetorical devices and so many chills-up-the-arms-good examples that the info sticks like velcro. I’m talking that decorators kind of velcro you practically need two hands to pry off…. you know the kind.
Highly recommend for anyone who believes that while, yes, you should “murder your darlings,” powerful writing should always survive.
This was one of the best classes on character development I’ve ever taken! There is so much information and none of it is wasted or fluff. You will get to the meat and bones of your characters – all of them! And Rhay is a great teacher and so helpful!!
Creating tension is essential in every genre to write a compelling novel. It encompasses suspense and conflict, can be create compelling characters, make use of visceral reactions and often feels so reliant on puzzles that it is a bit of a conundrum in itself (at least that’s how I experience attempting to craft it). Sarah (Sally) Hamer is such an encouraging and enthusiastic teacher, I think I would have got lost/ given up without her support and I’m SO glad I did this course. My biggest takeaway is to think of tension in terms of patterns – tracking the rise and fall of conflict around relationships, characters and theme as well as through structure in terms of scene and sequel. I gained a lot of tools to use as I write forward as well as ways to create a cascading motion throughout the text. Thank you so much to Sarah for her help. There is so much material packed into this course and I am so glad I did it with Sarah’s support.
I always wondered how authors weaved the motivation and the why throughout the story so effortlessly, and after taking Sarah’s class, I can see how they do it.
I can certainly see myself using the information I learned in Sarah’s class in every story going forward.
If you want to maximize your characters traits/flaws in every scene, this is the course for you.
I found this course enjoyable and it helped improve my writing, by really thinking about the character traits and story arc, etc. Sarah was lovely (and easy) to work with. Highly recommend, as with all Margie classes I have done over recent years.
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