I understand the business by that name has gone into cadavership, but the need for sharper images in writing will never expire. This past weekend I attended a two-day workshop by Margie Lawson on "Power Up Emotion: Four Levels for Writing Success" and "Empowering Characters' Emotions with the EDITS System."
The workshops were sponsored by Tacoma Community College here in Washington. The facility is perfect for such events; our classroom had power outlets for laptops at every seat, and the room sloped so each person had excellent line-of-sight to the screen.
In addition to presenting in person, Margie Lawson teaches these classes online once or twice a year. [Visit www.margielawson.com for details.]
The lesson on rhetorical devices (she explained 26 of them!!!) was too much for me to take in during the time allotted, but I'm determined to understand these better and use more of them to enrich my work. While she flipped from slide to slide and example after example of anaphora, epistrophe, etc., my head felt like a bathtub with water gushing in. Unfortunately, my drain stopper is made of brittle matter (one suspects age) and much of the lesson ran out. Luckily, I have a list of the devices and a splash of examples to review.
EDITS system is a color-coded method to highlight Emotion (pink), Dialogue (blue), and other factors of vibrant writing in fiction and non-fiction.
Now, I must get back to work on my current project.
Lynnette
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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