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Show Me the Love

Instructor: Pamela Jaye Smith. Romance novels have plenty of love in them, right?

Romantic love, yes, but there are wonderful opportunities to deepen your readers’ engagement by bringing in other kinds of love.

We’ll explore other types of love that permeate our emotional lives and drive our actions. Include one or more of these in each story to  give your characters more depth and create more opportunities for conflict, change, and growth.

Plus you can introduce your readers to things, places, people, ideas, and more that you love.

Categories include familial love, brotherly love, love of friends, love of self, love of country, love of deity, love of animals, love of art, love of money, love of power, love of nature, love of death and destruction.

Lessons will look at the psychological background of each unique type of love, find examples in myth and stories, and give suggestions on how to weave this love into your works.

Self-tests and optional writing assignments will help you ground the information and become even more adept at writing worlds of love into your romance novels.

WHEN:    Jul 30, 2012 - Aug 26, 2012

COST:   $15 for Premium Members
$25 for Basic Members

Cancellation policy: Registrations are non-refundable except when the workshop is cancelled by Savvy Authors.

REGISTRATION:      *** Registration Closed***

INSTRUCTOR:   

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Pamela Jaye Smith is a mythologist, writer, international story consultant and speaker, and award-winning producer-director with over three decades in the media industry. She is the author of THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE, INNER DRIVES, and SYMBOLS.IMAGES.CODES books for writers from publishers Michael Wiese Productions. Her company MYTHWORKS™ offers ‘Applied Mythology for more Powerful Reality’ and she works with writers to bring the power of myth to their stories – all genres and all styles. Pamela has taught writing at UCLA Extension, USC, RAI-TV Rome, Nat'l Film Institute of Denmark, Romance Writers of America on-line, and many more. Other clients and credits include Microsoft, Paramount, Universal, the US Army and the FBI. Pamela Jaye is also a co-founder of the Alpha Babe Academy. www.pamelajayesmith.com   www.alphababeacademy.com

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