A full day workshop featuring
Canadian author and writing instructor
Lynda Simmons

As a writing instructor for Ryerson University and Sheridan College, Lynda Simmons has been helping students develop their writing skills and achieve their publishing goals for over five years.

Whether you're writing science fiction/fantasy, mystery, romance or literary fiction, this workshop is designed to help aspiring authors discover their story and their voice, develop characters that live and breathe and learn what show don't tell really means.

Find out what separates a selling manuscript from one that keeps bouncing back from an author who has sold eight novels in four years and has seen her work translated into ten languages worldwide.

Next workshop to be held in Barrie Ontario
in the spring. If you would like to be notified
of this or other workshops, please drop me a line.
I'll be happy to keep you posted.

Sponsored by The Golden Horseshoe Writer's Guild

For more information or to register e-mail me at lyndasimmons@sympatico.ca

Comments from former students

I had the great pleasure of being Lynda's student. To sum up how I feel about her as an instructor would be to say it's a shame I had to wait till I was in my thirties to be in the tutorage of so skilled a teacher. Personally, it was Lynda who helped me make the connections I direly needed. I had read every How-to book on writing I could find, taken two other courses and fumbled my way through several writers' collectives prior to taking her class. The way she shared her knowledge was clear and well illustrated, always with active participation from all in the room. Hers was not a class that sat there staring at the clock. She inspired an eagerness in her students I had not seen before and it was welcome.
Her course was not about metaphysics, psychology or the `why' of writing. It was architecture, mathematical logic. We were taught how to construct a novel, something that had eluded me until then. It is easy for me to say that she is one of those instructors who make you eager to get to class and whose indelible impression lingers with you long after they've sent you on your way. She's one of those teachers you want to make proud.

William Leskevich
Hamilton

As a former student, I highly recommend Lynda Simmons as an instructor. I found the course informative and the experience extremely useful. Her teaching method is hands-on, with guidance on outlining, brainstorming ideas for conflict and motivation, strengthening dialogue and heightening emotional tension. Ms. Simmons' review of my writing pointed out my strengths and weakness. In fact, the first two chapters of the manuscript-in-progress that Ms. Simmons reviewed was just bought by the New York publishing company of Harlequin Historicals. I used the tips in class to land a New York agent, and highly recommend her course and career advice.

Sincerely,
Kate Bridges
THE DOCTOR'S HOMECOMING