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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
>>>Click here for
the complete, and frequently updated, schedule of events and
workshops.
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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.