September 17, 2016: Writing Emotion: How Do You Catch a Cloud and Pin it Down?

258amanda.2016Join us Saturday, September 17, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard Rd., Pleasanton, as Amanda McTigue, guest speaker for the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch, presents “Writing Emotion: How Do You Catch a Cloud and Pin it Down?”

An out-of-the-box thinker and speaker, novelist Amanda McTigue will help writers open the emotional content of our writing across all genres. Whether we struggle with work that seems lifeless or overblown, Amanda’s insights will re-focus us in ways that enhance authenticity and depth on the one hand, surprise and subtlety on the other.

Amanda McTigue’s debut novel Going to Solace was named a Best Read of 2012 by public radio KRCB’s literary program “Word by Word.” Her short stories have appeared recently in “Literally Stories,” “Pantheon” and “Typehouse.” Last December, Amanda visited the remote Sierra Maestra mountains of Cuba researching her second novel, Monkey Bottom. A Yale graduate (member of the fourth class of undergraduate women), Amanda has written for clients such as Disney Entertainment and Paramount Entertainment. Her works for the stage have been produced at Carnegie Hall, the Minnesota Opera, and the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University where she’s currently hard at work stage directing Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” for a 2017 production. For more on Amanda, visit www.amandamctigue.com.