Workshops and Talks
I’ve given quite a few talks and taught many workshops over the years. Below are a sample of them. If you’re interested in having me talk to your group or teach a workshop, please drop me an e-mail at meriah at rhinoi.com.
Talks:
- Private Investigations: What PI’s Really Do, How They Do It, and Why It’s So Important (1-hour talk)
- The Pros and Cons of Privacy (1-hour talk)
- Productivity for Teaching Faculty (20-minute talk, easily expandable)
- Productivity for Writers (1+ hour talk)
- Professional Writing (1 to 1.5-hour talk)
Workshops:
- Writing Memoir (8-week workshops)
- Second Person: It’s Not What You Think (1.5-hour workshop)
- The Power of Point of View (2-hour workshops)
- Be More Productive (1-hour workshop)
- First Pages (2-hour workshop)
- Getting Tense: How to Use Past, Present, and Future Tenses More Effectively (1-hour workshop)
- Creating Great Characters (1- to 2-hour workshops)
- Professional Writing (1- to 2-hour or more workshops)
- Under the Influence: Exploring External Influences on Your Characters (1-hour workshop)
- Writing Effective Dialog (1/2-hour or more workshop)
- Detecting Deception (2-hour workshop)
- Interviewing Techniques (2-hour workshop)
- Photography for Investigators (2-hour workshop)
- Internet for Investigators (2-hour workshop)
I have also participated on panels about flash fiction, learning to write, technology, social media, climate change, writing about science, the apocalypse, productivity for writers, the literary canon, shared universes, vampires and zombies, southern authors, writing groups and beta readers, mystery fiction, privacy, various aspects of point of view, bad writing, tropes, writing for anthologies, art, research and rabbit holes, strong women characters, robots, worldbuilding, firearms, and much more.
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