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Missouri Romance Writers of America
presents

Margie Lawson
on

Empowering Characters' Emotions

April 23-24th, 2010
Creve Coeur Drury Inn, St. Louis, Missouri
$45 per person, non-MORWA member. 
$15 MORWA membership valid prior to 11/30/2009, $25 for members joining after 11/30/2009
Special Offer - Join MORWA and attend the workshop for only $50! ***
Last Day of Registration:  March 21, 2010
Special Discounted Rate at the Drury (mention MORWA)

Want to hook the reader viscerally?  Want to write the full range of body language in fresh ways?  Want to add psychological power and turn your work into a page turner?

This two day, intensive workshop covers:

• The EDITS System

• Four Levels of Powering Up Emotion

• The Full Range of Body Language:  Facial Expressions, Dialogue Cues, Proxemics, Posture, Gestures, Deception Cues

• Fresh Visceral Responses

• Cliché-Busting

• Motivation Reaction Units

• Ideomotoric Shifts

• Subtext Power

• Emotional Authenticity

• Backstory Management

• Emotional Hits

• Deep Editing Techniques

• Rhythm and Cadence and Beats

• Carrying a Nonverbal Image Forward

• Projecting Emotion for a Non-POV Character

• ...and more!

Margie Lawson holds a Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology with a two-year concentration beyond her master's degree, specializing in psychiatric counseling and nonverbal communication. Her resume includes college professor, clinical trainer, sex therapist, Director of an Impotence Clinic, hypnotherapist and keynote speaker.

 Margie merges her two worlds, psychology and writing, by analyzing writing craft as well as the psyche of the writer. She developed new psychologically-anchored editing systems and techniques which hook the reader viscerally.