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For my writing workshop participants and anyone else interested in creative writing, welcome! The recommended reading lists are extensive and frequently updated; the resources for writers include the daily 5 minute writing exercise; recommended manuscript editors; general advice about publishing, agents and book PR, and much more.

Upcoming Writing Workshops (& Talks About Writing)

February 22-23, 2010 San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel Workshops
Two Day Workshop with C.M. Mayo
Techniques of Fiction
10-1 pm both days.
Uniquely geared toward both beginning and advanced writers, C.M. Mayo’s creative writing workshop emphasizes techniques for tapping into creativity and specific aspects of craft. As at the Bethesda, Maryland Writers Center where Mayo has taught highly popular workshops since 1999. In this session you will focus on generating new material with exercises addressing: specificity, point of view, synesthesia, imagery, image patterning, plot and more.

March 5, 2010 Leesburg VA
Leesburg First Friday www.writer.org

"Staying Focused: Researching and Writing the Longer Book Project"
C.M. Mayo to talk about what she learned in writing her novel,
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and her travel memoir, Miraculous Air, with plenty of Q & A.

To finish the marathon of writing a long book, more than talent, more than free time, more than anything, in fact, a writer needs mental toughness to avoid the myriad distractions, damaging self-talk, frustrations, and sometimes just plain old boredom along the way. C.M. Mayo, a long-time Writers Center workshop leader and author of several books, including a deeply researched travel memoir and, most recently, an epic historical novel based on the true story (and many years of original archival research), offers tips, tricks and more to inspire you to start, stay with, and finish your book.

March 7, 2010 Bethesda MD
The Writers Center

10 - 5 pm.
Dialogue Intensive
One day only workshop with C.M. Mayo.
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 that by the end of the workshop, your dialogue will be of notably higher quality. For more information and to register on-line, click here.

Praise for C.M. Mayo's recent "Techniques of Fiction" workshop at the Writers Center, Bethesda MD, 6/ 2009:

"I found this workshop extremely helpful to kickstart my writing. It gave me useful tools and exercises to use in a very short space of time."

"Great workshop. Loved the exercises, toolkit approach and focus on technique and structure. Open to questions. Came prepared with many resources. Very accessible, matter-of-fact approach to writing. Ms. Mayo takes the mystery out of writing and makes it real."


Praise for C.M. Mayo's recent "Techniques of Fiction" workshop in San Miguel de Allende, 2/ 2009:

"This workshop was jam-packed with practical techniques! I feel I suddenly have the inside secrets that distinguish extraordinary writing and even I can do them! Imagine. Great writing can be learned.
Susan Page

Wonderful nuts and bolts workshop. Writers of all levels should not miss it!
Sterling Bennett


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