Summer 2013
To be confirmed
Podcasting for Writers One day
only. 9 am - 12 pm Audio podcasts, on-line
digital files, not only serve as an important promotional tool
for writers, but they can be storytelling vehicles themselves,
whether as stand-alone works or complements to text. This workshop
provides an introduction and overview of podcasting for writers,
from basic concepts to nuts-and-bolts tips. The goal is that
by the end of the workshop, you will be able to go home and use
your iPhone or digital recorder and computer to generate and
then post a simple podcast on-line. >Listen to C.M. Mayo's
podcasts here.
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RECENT
WORKSHOPS
September 8, 2012Bethesda
MD (Near Washington DC) The
Writer's Center 1 - 5 pm
Literary Travel Writing Take your travel writing
to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader
the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you.
For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop covers
the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to
this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously
vivid effects. >>Register
on-line here. >>If the website shopping cart isn't working,
no worries, call the Writer's Center at 301-654-8664
May 5, 2012,
Bethesda
MD Podcasting
(Audio) for Writers Writer's
Center
One day only. 10
am - 12 pm Audio podcasts, on-line
digital files, not only serve as an important promotional tool
for writers, but they can be storytelling vehicles themselves,
whether as stand-alone works or complements to text. This workshop
provides an introduction and overview of podcasting for writers,
from basic concepts to nuts-and-bolts tips. The goal is that
by the end of the workshop, you will be able to go home and use
your iPhone or digital recorder and computer to generate and
then post a simple podcast on-line. >>Listen to C.M. Mayo's
podcasts here. >>REGISTER
ON-LINE
May 5, 2012,
Bethesda
MD How
(and How Not to) Write Dialogue
Writer's Center
One day only. 1
pm- 5 pm
One of the most powerfully vivid ways to show character, relationship,
conflict, and/or mood is through the use of dialogue. For both
beginning and advanced fiction and nonfiction writers, this workshop
focuses on the use and misuse of dialogue, with a series of mini-lectures
interspersed with brief exercises. The goal is by the end of
the workshop, your dialogue will be of notably higher quality.
>>Read C.M. Mayo's writing,
which has plenty of dialogue, here. >>REGISTER
ON-LINE
February 20 and 21, 2012
San Miguel
de Allende
San Miguel
Writing Intensive
"Techniques of Fiction" For both
beginning and experienced fiction writers, "Techniques of
Fiction" focuses on generating new material with exercises
addressing specificity, point of view, synesthesia, imagery,
image patterning, plot, rhythm, and the use and misuse of dialogue.
The goal is that by the end of the workshop, your writing will
be of notably higher quality. >>See a
profile
on the San Miguel Writers Conference website.
For C.M. Mayo events
in San Miguel de Allende, please also visit the events page.
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Recent
(and to be repeated in 2011):
April 18, 2009 "Literary Travel Writing" The
Writers Center
Bethesda MD A special
one day only workshop with C.M. Mayo, 1-5 pm. Take your travel writing
to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader
the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you.
For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop covers
the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to
this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously
vivid effects. >>Read an article about this workshop from
The Writer's Carousel reprinted on my blog, Madam Mayo.
Mexico
City:
For the one-day workshops in Mexico City, please visit Dancing
Chiva.
