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Workshop Writing Figuratively
Instructor: Sarah Winn. This workshop covers the benefits and dangers of using figurative language in your writing. It is divided into twelve lessons: Lesson 1. Introduction Lesson 2. Metaphors Lesson 3. The Power of Metaphors Lesson 4. Similes, Personification, Allusion Lesson 5. Metonymy, Antonomasia, Synecdoche, Euphemisms Lesson 6. Figures of Speech in The Green Knight Lesson 7. Figurative Language in Love Scenes Lesson 8. The Hemingway Cliché Lesson 9. Purple Prose Lesson 10. Intended Humor Lesson 11. Settings Lesson 12. A Collection of Figures of Speech Examples are used throughout the discussions, both from the instructor and from other authors’ work. Many of the examples are drawn from romance fiction, but several lectures are based on the work of the mainstream writers, Sue Monk Kidd, Iris Murdoch, and Ernest Hemingway. Warning: graphic sexual terms are contained in the discussion of love scenes.
WHEN:	Jul 19 - Aug 15
COST:	$15 for Premium Members $25 for Basic & NON-Members
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WHO:	To date, Sarah Winn has nine romances (books) to her credit. Sarah won the Epic Contest in 2003 for best electronically published historical romance and was a finalist in this contest in 2007 in the historical erotic romance category. Her most recent books are For Old Time’s Sake, from Phaze Books, and The Fetching Foundling from Whiskey Creek Press Torrid. Sarah is a long-time member of RWA and Heart of Carolina RW. She served as chapter newsletter editor for four years and has given a number of workshops at monthly chapter meetings. You can read more about Sarah and her work at www.Sarahwinn.com.

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