Learning from the Master

Class Name: Six Hens and a Pocket Rooster

A common assumption is that published writers have already learned all they need to know about writing. If they hadn’t, they wouldn’t be published, right?

Wrong. Very, very wrong.

Once a writer signs that first book deal, we realize how much we still need to learn. How much we need to improve. How much we need to produce fresh and entertaining stories.

Why?

Working hard in the New Mexico sunshine.

Because readers depend on us to produce quality stories that grab them by the shirt collar, pull them into the story, and won’t let go until the last page of the story is turned.

I recently had the privilege of attending an Immersion Class with Margie Lawson. For five days I was immersed in Margie’s world of deep editing, emotion, deep POV, and her invisible tattoos. (Sorry, folks, you have to do an Immersion class to get the story on those.)

Would I do it again? Absolutely. And again and again and again.

Discussing what we learned over dinner

Because Margie Lawson is a master, and I never want to stop learning and improving.