Grand Marais Public Library is set to host a writing workshop on Saturday, September 29, from 2:30 to 6 p.m. The presenter is Elyse Lawrey, who writes under the name Maddie LeSage, a published author from Duluth, Minnesota.
The workshop is intended to offer local writers the opportunity to create a short piece of fiction in one workshop. The goal is for each participant to create a strong character driven piece in the form of flash fiction (1,000 words or less) that a participant might have in finished form by the end of the workshop. Topics to be covered include: Goals, Motivation, and Conflict, Character Descriptions and Development, Scene Development, Dialogue, Character Development, Interview Questions, Character Sketch, and Clothing and Language.
Maddie LeSage writes romantic suspense, or romance with a twist, as she likes to call it. She graduated from the University of Minnesota- Duluth with a degree in English, and is a member of Romance Writers of America, Northern Lights Writers (a chapter of RWA) and Sisters in Crime, an organization for mystery writers. Maddie’s stories take place in and around Duluth where she currently lives.
Her next book, Rescue Me, will take place in a fictitious town called Cedar Falls which was inspired by her many visits to Grand Marais.
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