Murder One - October

Title: What the Action Heroine Knows--and The Writer Should: Martial Arts, Fighting, and Weaposn in Mystery and Suspense

Instructor: Rob Preece

Class Description: Conflict brings story to life, and physical conflict adds to a story's visceral impact. Most writers, however, are not street fighters and sometimes describe unworkable fight scenerios or overly-generic situations. In this interactive workshop, Black belt and writer Rob Preece helps writers come up with fight scenes that work (both from a physical and story perspective), that appeal to the reader's imagination, and that go beyond the cliche of the knee in the groin. The workshop describes various martial arts training your character might have experienced, traditional and non-traditional weapons they might use. By the time you've completed this workshop, you'll be thinking about physical conflict and fight scenes in the same way you do love scenes--as a chance to further the story, add characterization, create a physical and mental reaction in the reader, and enhance the reader's suspension of disbelief. Like love scenes, fight scenes make up the story, they can't just be tagged on.

Instructor Bio: Rob Preece is a martial artist, writer small publisher, and bridge instructor. He holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and has also studied Ju-Jitsu, Kobodo (Okinawan traditional weapons), European Fencing, Judo and Taiji (Tai-Chi). When he's not practicing fighting, Rob is working on his next project, editing, or playing bridge. A longtime member of Romance Writers of America, Rob has finaled in the RWA Golden Heart competition as well as finaling or winning a number of other writing competitions. His mystery, Midlife Murder (writing as Amy Eastlake) was a top-rated pick at Fictionwise where he's reached the best-sellers list several times. He's presented his workshop on writing fight scenes for RWA National, Mystery Writers of America Southwest, EPIC, several local RWA and MWA chapters and on line.

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