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CRW meets the second Saturday of every month
at the Northern Hills Christian Church

Meeting and luncheon begin at noon.
Board meeting begins at 10:30 and members are welcome to attend.
Cost: $5
What to Bring: Yourself

(720) 685-1717
5061 E 160th Ave
Brighton, CO 80602-6001
http://www.northernhills.cc

North on I-25 to Exit 229 5.8 mi (Colorado Highway 7)
Turn Right at the exit to go east, about 3 miles.
Arrive at 5061 E 160th Ave, Brighton, CO 80602
Northern Hills Christian Church is on your left, the north side of Highway 7.

Most meetings will be held in Room 201.
  • 10:30 a.m., or 1-hour before all-day workshops
    Board of Directors Meeting ~ All members are welcome.
  • 12:00 p.m. Lunch
  • 12:30 p.m. Booktalk (when available)
  • 1:00 p.m. General Meeting
  • 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Monthly program

Please email Laura Stephens to make a reservation to attend by the Sunday prior to the meeting.
2010 Schedule
JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC

January 9th, 2010 – Writing Body Language Like a Psychologist & It’s How You Say It: Powering Up Dialogue Cues with Margie Lawson

Writing Body Language and Dialogue Cues Like a Psychologist

By Margie Lawson

Powering Up Body Language:

Learn how to write body language from a kinesics specialist. This workshop explores how to write fresh:

• Facial expressions: lips, eyes, chin, full face, flicker-face, macro- and micro-expressions
• Kinesics: communicating by body movement
• Proxemics: communicating by body positioning
• Haptics: communication by touch
• Tells: unconscious signals that communicate anxiety, aversion, and deception
• Gesture Types: emblems, illustrators, regulators, beat gestures, affect displays
• Body Language Clusters

Powering Up Dialogue Cues:

This workshop explores the world of writing dialogue cues—how the writer describes how the dialogue is delivered. Dialogue cues are one part of writing nonverbal communication. They’re one part writers often overlook.

Writers fall into using the same type of words, the same patterns, the same style.

Workshop participants will learn how to add write dialogue cues using tone, volume, inflection, pitch, quality, and rate of speech.

Write Body Language and Dialogue Cues with Psychological Power:
• Avoid clichés and write fresh
• Use Margie’s Four Levels: Basic, Complex, Empowered, Super Empowered
• Use a range of rhetorical devices
• Use stimulus/response patterns
• Strengthen an Emotional Response
• Create Hyphenated-run-ons
• Create Scene-themed, Setting-themed, Character-themed

Teaching points will be illustrated with examples from pre-published, debut, and bestselling authors. Their excerpts will be deep edited, dissected, and analyzed.

BIO: Margie Lawson—psychotherapist, writer, and international presenter – applied her psychological expertise to dissect and analyze hundreds of novels. Margie taught psychology and communication courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. Her resume includes clinical trainer, professor, sex therapist, director of a counseling center, hypnotherapist, and trauma specialist.

Her psychologically-anchored Deep Editing tools are used by all writers, from newbies to NYT Bestsellers. She teaches writers how to edit for psychological power, how to hook the reader viscerally, how to create page-turners. More information at www.MargieLawson.com.

February 13th, 2010 - "Daily Life in the Middle Ages" with Allegra Gray

Learn how to add authenticity to your historical manuscript by learning how people really lived in the middle ages. Multimedia workshop covers opics such as personal hygiene, food preservation and preparation, entertainment and pastimes, even plumbing and city sanitation. Bust through myths and common misperceptions (bathing was more common than you might think!) and create a medieval backdrop with the richness your story deserves.

BIO: Allegra Gray is a former military officer--turned English professor--turned homeland defense analyst. One thing she has always been, though, is a storyteller. Allegra wrote her first book at the age of 5 (it has yet to be published).

Allegra began her publishing career while teaching in the English department of the U.S. Air Force Academy, but soon discovered that non-fiction, academic work was not enough to satisfy her creative drive.

She turned to fiction, and launched her career as a novelist with Kensington Publishing, with the release of a historical romance, “Nothing But Scandal” in July 2009.

Allegra lives in Colorado and writes novels full of steamy intrigue that interweave her love of history, legend, and romance.

March 13, 2010 - Deni Hawkins and Janet Stanfield

Click here for additional information.


April

May

June 12, 2010 - CRW’s All-Day Workshop and Awards Luncheon

Special Guest Speaker: Debra Dixon

Topic: “Book in a Day” combining Goal, Motivation and Conflict with the Hero’s Journey

9am -5pm in “The Attic” of the Northern Hills Christian Church, 5061 E 160th Ave, Brighton, CO 80602-6001, on Highway 7 approximately 4 miles east of I-25

Lunch catered by Carino’s including a vegetarian entrée

Member: $40 Non-Member: $45


Reserve your seat by emailing Tiffany at tiffany@tiffanyjames.net. Pay by Paypal or send a check, made out to Colorado Romance Writers, to:
Tiffany VanderSchaaff
228 Muscovey Lane
Johnstown, CO 80534

Please reserve your spot by June 10th

Debra's a bestselling author currently at work on her eleventh book, and has served as Vice-President for Romance Writers of America, an organization of over 9,000 writers. In 2003 RWA honored Debra with the national Emma Merritt Service Award, recognizing her contributions to writers and the organization.

Her published work has been awarded the Georgia Romance Writers' "Maggie," A Little Romance Magazine's ROMY, Colorado's Award of Excellence, the Kiss of Death Award for best suspense of the year from RWA's Mystery/Suspense Chapter, and she's received a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Innovative Series Romance. Her published books have been recognized as finalists for the Virginia Holt Medallion, Romantic Times Best Loveswept, and the National Readers' Choice Award for romance fiction.

In addition to speaking at numerous regional and national conferences Debra developed and continues to teach a novel writing courses for the University of Memphis as well as one-day writing workshops across the country. In late 1996, Gryphon Books For Writers published Debra's first writing "how-to" book based on her popular GMC:Goal, Motivation, and Conflict workshop. That book is now in its sixth printing. In late 2002, Gryphon published Debra's second non-fiction book When You're the Only Cop in Town, a writer's guide to small town law enforcement.

Although she has now "semi-retired" from a successful career as a small business consultant, she continues to serve on the Board of Directors for three corporations, including an international trading company. Her latest adventure in the world of business is BelleBooks, a small press founded with five other commercial fiction writers. Between them they've written over 200 books for New York publishers and thought it was time to follow the lead of the independent film makers by producing and controlling some of their own work.

Debra lives in the South with her husband and son. When she's not working in publishing or Corporate America, she moonlights as an award-winning quilter. The current home-remodeling-project-that-will-not-end began because Debra thought it would be nice to have a quilt studio for her art.

July 10, 2010 - “Deep POV” with Liz Pelletier

CANCELLED

August 14, 2010 - Fire Containment and Emergency Response with Firefighter John Carr

September 11, 2010 - “Mental Health Disorders and Your Characters" Monica Morriss.

October 9, 2010 - Tea

November 13, 2010 - "Modern and Historic Hauntings in Colorado" with Kevin from Denver History Tours. (Tentative)

December 11, 2010 - Holiday Party
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