“The Allure of Words: An Exploration of Wordplay for Writers” Workshop with Megan Landon – June 2025
Join Passionate Ink Wednesday, June 25th at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT for “The Allure of Words: An Exploration of Wordplay for Writers” with award-winning author Megan Landon, who holds a doctorate in Linguistics. $10 for PI Members/$20 for non-members. Live workshop will be recorded.
Words carry power. From intensely plosive to subtly seductive. For writers, once we finish the peopling, plotting, and pacing of our stories, our work isn’t done. Long and short stories—fiction and non—need to be smoothed, stroked, and slashed. That’s when we narrow our lens to consider the physical shape, semantic nuance, and sensual impression of words in polishing our literary darlings.
In The Allure of Words, we ask the controversial questions. Do we really need to get rid of our adverbs? Why is the answer “Yes. Mostly?” Doesn’t a quadruple negative equal a positive? How can I make my reader feel my words? Our goal is to show why each word should have a reason for being on the page. This workshop serves both novice and veteran writers. Newbies learn tools to tighten their prose while seasoned pros get a refresher on the subtle techniques that make their languaging pop.
Megan Landon is an indie author with a history of publishing in a variety of arenas, including fiction, non-fiction, personal essay, and academia. She’s won awards for her essay and academic work, as well as her erotic fiction. Midsummer and Mycelium (Finalist Passionate Plume Speculative Short, 2024), Of Broken Bots and Tempting Techs (Literally Lovesick Star Recommendation, Golden Pigtail Award for Erotic Audiobook, 2024), The Wanton Witch and the Longest Night (Golden Pigtail Award for Horror and Paranormal Erotic Fiction 2024), and Of Broken Bots and Tempting Techs (Golden Pigtail Award for Audiobook 2024.) Megan’s work has appeared in Bust Magazine, and she is a regular contributor and editor of the Erotica Consortium’s Sexy Celebrations anthologies. Megan’s alter-persona holds a Ph.D. in linguistics. Her award-winning dissertation was a comprehensive grammar of an indigenous language, in which she describes aspects of the language’s sound system, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and narrative structure. As such, she brings technical, multi-cultural, cross-linguistic, and literary perspectives to the concept of words.