Announcing our next Online Lab
Your Powerful Writer's Voice
Margaret Lucke
About Margaret Lucke
Margaret Lucke flings words around as a writer and editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes tales of love, ghosts, and murder, sometimes all three in one book. She is the author of four novels—House of Desire, House of Whispers, Snow Angel, and A Relative Stranger (an Anthony Award finalist)—and is the editor of Fault Lines, a short story anthology from the Northern California chapter of Sisters in Crime. She is a former president of Mystery Writers of America NorCal.
Margaret has also published two how-to books on the craft of writing and more than 60 short stories, feature articles, and scripts for mystery weekends. For many years she has taught fiction writing classes for UC Berkeley Extension and other venues.
Visit her at www.margaretlucke.com
and https://www.facebook.com/Margaret.Lucke.Author/
Description of talk:
Your Powerful Writer's Voice
What’s meant by a writer’s voice? Voice is an elusive concept, hard to define, but it’s a quality that every editor seeks in a manuscript. It’s that unique combination of language, imagery, lyricism, ideas, attitude, and style that gives your fiction its own distinctive personality. Having a powerful voice will help make your manuscript more appealing to publishers and more rewarding and satisfying for your readers.
This workshop will help you explore and strengthen your own writer's voice. If you are writing fiction, memoir, personal essays, or narrative nonfiction in any form, you will benefit from attending this session.
What you will learn:
- Why editors want a story with a powerful voice
- Why no two writers have the same voice, and the elements that make each of our voices distinctive
- Five sources of power for your writer’s voice
- How the choices you make about characters, story structure, and point of view impact the voice of every story
- Tips and techniques you can use to strengthen your voice today
Location: Zoom Online
To receive a full refund minus a $25 cancellation processing fee, attendees must cancel their registration 5 days before the event. No refunds will be given after that time. To cancel your registration, go to palmspringswritersguild.org and click on the blue icon at the top right of any page. Enter user name and password and click "LOG IN". On the next screen click "My event registrations". Select event and cancel registration.
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Unable to attend? No problem, all paid registrants will receive a video replay.
You will receive an invitation to the Zoom online meeting after you have registered and payment is complete.
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Event Contact: Ariella Moon
authorariellamoon@gmail.com
