NO RULES--Just Write!
Dates: August 21 - September 1, 2006
Instructor: CJ Lyons
Course description:
What are the "rules" of successful fiction writing?
Should you follow them? Or should you break them?
Award-winning medical suspense author CJ Lyons will discuss
the rules using examples from industry professionals. She
will discuss head-hopping, genre-mixing, the toxic backstory
dump, the hero and heroine's meet and greet and other "rules."
CJ will give you the information you need to understand why
the rules exist and when to ignore them and just write.
About the Instructor:
CJ Lyons has lived most of her life on the edge. Trained
in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, she has assisted police and
prosecutors with cases involving child abuse, rape, homicide
and Munchausen by Proxy. She has worked in numerous trauma
centers, on the Navajo reservation, as a crisis counselor,
victim advocate, as well as a flight physician for Life Flight
and Stat Medevac.
A Golden Heart Finalist in Romantic Suspense and winner
of the Golden Gateway, CJ is a member of Romance Writers of
America, Sisters in Crime and Kiss of Death. She has contributed
columns to the Kiss of Death newsletter, CrimeSpree, and WebMystery
Magazine. She has presented workshops to the MWA, RWA, and
Nittany Valley Writers Workshop among others. Her medical
thriller, BLINK OF AN EYE, will be published by Tor
Books, summer 2007.
For more information go to her website at http://www.cjlyons.net
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