RWA Workshop 3: Set In Emotion

Next on the list of helpful workshops at the RWA conference this year is Set In Emotion by Erin Quin.

This interative workshop shows how to layer in emotion to your scenes by using description - especially how describing things from the viewpoint character's persepctive can flavour the scene and add atmosphere. Erin suggests identifying the overall mood or emotion of your scene and then finding 'word families' that reflect that to use in description.

I definitely use this technique already in my writing, but it was great to hear it from a fresh persepctive.In fact, I think I came at the subject from the other direction in my talk on emotion at the RNA conference, when I mentioned how by using the wrong description writers can sometimes dilute the emotion of a scene.

Click here for the download, if you're interested.

RWA Workshop 2: Hips Don't Lie

My second RWA workshop recommendation is Hips Don't Lie by Gina Ardito - an helpful, amusing and informative journey through the world of male and female body language.

This fun, hands-on workshop will detail the subtle and not-so-subtle signals our bodies send out in the pursuit of romance, so authors can rejuvenate their prose with more than just shrugs and winks.

Great for helping keep those physical mannerisms fresh and true! And if you want to know why men can't tell the difference between bums and boobs, this one is for you!  Here's the link if you're interested getting the audio download, or you can try here if you'd like to see the workshop hand out.