**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**

Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for
March.

Date: 3/2 – 3/27/09

Workshop title: Writing Figuratively or Adding Impact by Using Figures
of Speech

This workshop covers the benefits and dangers of using figurative
language in your writing and will cover such areas as the power of
metaphors; similies, personification, and allusion; metonymy,
antonomasia, synecdoche, and euphemisms; figurative language in love
scenes; the Hemingway Cliche; purple prose; intended humor; settings;
and 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.

About the instructor: Sarah Winn

To date, Sarah Winn has nine romances (books) to her credit. Sarah won
the Eppie in 2003 for best electronically published historical romance
and was a finalist in this contest in 2007 in the historical erotic
romance category. Her latest book, For Old Time’s Sake, from Phaze
Books, is her first contemporary novel set in her home state, North
Carolina.

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 programs at monthly chapter meetings. “Writing Figuratively”
is her first online workshop. She’s given it to the Charter Oak
Chapter of RWA, her home chapter, and is scheduled to give it later
this year to the Low Country Romance Writers.

Deadline to register: 3/1/09

Fee: $20 YWR members; $25 non-members. RWA Membership isn’t required;
Anyone can take our courses.

Where to sign up: You may register online at our website.
Please click the Pay Now button and follow the instructions for
Paypal, then EMAIL us at Workshops@YosemiteRomanceWriters.com to
Confirm. You may also YRW at
YosemiteRomanceWriters@YosemiteRomanceWriters.com for any other
questions.

Thank you for considering our workshops!!

Sandra Marlow
Vice President, YRW

Yosemite Romance Writers

WWW.yosemiteromancewriters.com

This post was submitted by Sandra Marlow.

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