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The Power of Quirky-Smirky Assonance and Alluring Alliteration

Guest Blogger — Wed, 12 May 2021 09:28:00 +0000

Join Margie Lawson in a deep dive into the quirky-smirky sea of assonance and alliteration. These rhetorical devices can help your writing shine.

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Margie’s Rule # 3: Lock in the Emotional Set

Guest Blogger — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:00:01 +0000

Margie Lawson If you are an NCIS fan, you know about Jethro Gibbs’ fifty-plus rules. I want to be as cool as Jethro Gibbs. This blog features my third Margie-Rule for writers. Margie’s Rule # 3: Lock in the Emotional Set My term, Emotional Set, refers to the mood of the scene. Writers know the […]

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Ax Your Cliches: Why and How

Sharla Rae — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:04:39 +0000

We couldn't talk WriterStrong without our Yoda of Edits and sparkling prose, Margie Lawson. Be prepared for great takeaway as Margie not only tells you, but shows you how it's done! Here she is: A big THANK YOU to Laura Drake for inviting me to be her guest today. Everything I teach is all about […]

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Fresh, Fresh, Fresh Character Descriptions!

Guest Blogger — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:00:02 +0000

We're so happy to welcome Margie Lawson today to share her writing wonderment with us. Margie will be speaking at the RWA National Conference in Anaheim next month, both at the Women's Fiction pre-conference event and a session at the conference. Generous as ever, Margie is donating a lecture packet or a free class to […]

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The Drama Bomb - Drop it!

Guest Blogger — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:00:55 +0000

Please Welcome Mario Acevedo to WITS - he's a best selling novelist and instructor over at the Lawson Academy, so you know he knows what he's talking about! Here he is: Mario here: I’ve been invited to share a little of what I know about writing tension and conflict. Let’s first ask ourselves why we […]

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Smart Writers Expand Time - From Margie Lawson!

Guest Blogger — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:59:17 +0000

By Margie Lawson A BIG THANK YOU to Mega-Talented Laura Drake for inviting me to be her guest blogger today! Writers are all powerful. Well, in their fictional worlds they are all powerful. Two of the 74,386 story dynamics that writers control are expanding time and compressing time. Today we’ll focus on the most fun […]

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Writers, Act Now!

Guest Blogger — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:30:02 +0000

Welcome to Last Fridays with Naked Editor Tiffany Lawson Inman on Writers In The Storm! Right now my physical self is driving up a Colorado mountain to Margie Lawson’s 5-day Immersion Master Class to be her co-instructor doing some micro and content editing, step-by-step editing fight/action scenes, and not sleep-at-all. This ain’t no retreat! […]

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Kiss Your “As” Goodbye!

Guest Blogger — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:00:08 +0000

Margie Lawson A heartfelt THANK YOU to Laura Drake for inviting me to be her guest today! The title should read: Kiss Some of Your “As”s Goodbye. But including the words, some of, diluted the power. No way I’d opt to dilute power. If you’ve taken my Big Three writing craft courses, you know how […]

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