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OWYHEE PLAZA HOTEL
1109 Main Street
Boise, ID 83702

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The Popular Fiction Assn of Idaho, Inc

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PROGRAM

Friday - June 5, 2009

Owyhee Plaza Hotel, 1109 Main Street, Boise, ID 83702

8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

Bob Mayer's Master Class "ONE-DAY NOVEL WRITER'S TOOLKIT"

9:00-9:50 The Original Idea—The Heart of Your Story and Key to Selling Your Book

10:00-10:50 Plot and Outline: The Events of Your Story

11:00-11:50 Point Of View: The Voice of Your Story

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:50 Characters: The People of Your Story

2:00-2:50 Selling And Marketing Your Book

3:00-3:50 The Current State and Future of the Publishing Business for the Writer

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7:00-9:00 Bob Mayer Booksigning -

Rediscovered Bookshop, 7079 Overland Road, Boise, (208) 376-4229.

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Saturday - June 6, 2009

Owyhee Plaza Hotel, 1109 Main Street, Boise, ID 83702

8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

Noon - Lunch

Margie Lawson's Master Class "DEEP EDITING POWER" 

9:00 - 4:00 In DEEP EDITING POWER, participants will:

1.  Learn the EDITS System and take it deeper.   See the interplay of patterns on the page and analyze what’s needed to strengthen the scene.   If you were introduced to Margie’s EDITS System in Empowering Characters’ Emotions, you’ll learn how to expand the EDITS System in DEEP EDITING POWER.

2.  Learn 25 rhetorical devices and practice using them in your work.  Examples of rhetorical devices from best selling authors will motivate writers to follow their lead.

3.  Develop skills by using worksheets provided in each lecture.  The worksheets also serve as a handy reference for learning the rhetorical devices.

4. Learn Margie’s Five Question Scene Checklist.. 

5.  Learn Deep Editing tips including back story management, power lines, throw-away words, cliché twists, back loading, tautologies, and Emotional Hits.

6.  Develop a personal editing checklist from the Master Editing Checklist.

7.  Learn how to make a FINAL EDITING PASS be your last pass.

 

 


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