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The presentation acknowledged the most by the
attendees was How to Make Your Dialogue Sing, with
Cindy Brown (shown here.) She gave an energetic
talk, full of examples, and put everyone to work with
a handful of writing exercises.
Leanna Lindquist interviewed Lisa and Michael
Cohn, a fun mother and son writing team.
Judy Nedry closed the workshop with a talk about
Setting as Character. She writes about settings in rural
Oregon, small town Oregon, and wine country. She
read selections from her works to demonstrate setting
as character, and described some of her adventures Cindy Brown
visiting places that serve as models for fictitious
towns and places. We had quite a discussion about Leanna Lindquist, Naomi Inman,
how much more you can understand about a place James Wantz, Cathy Harris and Phyllis
by going there, instead of looking it up on Google Harmon for my HPL Team. They all
Maps or other resources. How much more authentic said yes without hesitation, and went
your writing will be, even if you have to go to Russia above and beyond my unreasonable
(if that’s what you’re writing about.) expectations to make this event a
I can’t finish without expressing my sincere huge success. Ginger Killion, Marvin
appreciation and praise for my team. I recruited Mitchell and Lorri Andersen served as
my HPL Guidance Committee. They
listened, gave me invaluable advice
and supported my team and me.
Look for more about Write Here,
Right Now in the future. We plan to
make this an annual event. And I hope
that other Toastmasters will organize,
lead, help and attend. Maybe even for
their own HPL projects.
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