Schedule
Next Willamette Writers Mid-Valley Chapter Meeting:
Apr. 5, 2012
“Quick Fixes for Fantastic Fiction and Moving Memoir”
Presented by Elizabeth Lyon
Many writers are surprised to learn that quick-fix techniques can produce amazing and instant improvements in style, structure, and characterization. While some revising requires elbow grease and agonizing hours, this short workshop focuses on maximum results for minimum effort.
Elizabeth Lyon, a freelance book editor, instructor and author, began her career in 1988, teaching dozens of writing and publishing classes and workshops through LCC’s Continuing Education. She led 3 critique groups of writers on a weekly basis in her Eugene home for 13 years. Mentored in editing skills by literary agent Natasha Kern from 1988 to 1993, Elizabeth then broadened her agent relationships, on behalf of her editing clients, to dozens more. By consulting with writers, editing their whole or partial books, queries, synopses, and proposals, she has participated in the publishing success of about 40 nonfiction books, a dozen novels and as many awards and contest winners.
Elizabeth is the author of Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write, The Sell Your Novel Tool Kit, A Writer’s Guide to Nonfiction, A Writer’s Guide to Fiction, and Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore. This book was featured in “The Writer” magazine as one of the “8 Great Writing Books of 2008,” and described as “perhaps the most comprehensive book on revising fiction.”
She lives in Springfield with rott-span-corgi-heel-x Gracie Allen and with brat cat Hunter.
Contact Elizabeth online at www.elizabethlyon.com.
Location for meeting:
Tsunami Books
Eugene, OR
6:30pm gather and network with snacks
7pm - 8:30pm speaker seriesCategories
- "different" needs child (5)
- a study in awareness (16)
- book review (4)
- creativity (3)
- field trips (9)
- grief (2)
- homeschooling (10)
- life (81)
- long distance relationships (1)
- parenting (38)
- reading (12)
- SpiralScouts (9)
- suburban/urban homesteading (29)
- travel (13)
- Uncategorized (62)
- unschooling (16)
- women's issues (6)
- writing (49)
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