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Character, Voice and Story
Award-winning author Jana Laiz has been published in a wide range of genres, from young adult fantasy to historical biography, including the timely novel, Weeping Under This Same Moon, a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Gold Medalist and an International Reading Association Notable Book. A prolific workshop leader, Jana will give flex your writing muscles and […]
Making Magic on the Mountain: Purposeful memoir as a portal to the transformative power of memory and imagination
Bascom Lodge 3 Summit Road, AdamsThere was a reason J.K. Rowling chose Mount Greylock, the highest mountain in Massachusetts, as the site for an American school of wizardry. Indeed, visionary writers like Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau always sought out the peak of Mount Greylock as a place of creative inspiration, and shamans the world over know […]
The art of description: Details that matter with Jana Laiz
South Berkshire Friends Meeting House 280 State Road, Great BarringtonThe use of adjectives and descriptive language...the key to a great story. This might just be the hardest thing to do...adding enough description to make us want more, but not too much so the story gets lost in the details.