Bring Characters to Life

Bring Characters to Life

Creating believable three-dimensional characters is essential for successful creative writing. This workshop will help you bring your story’s personalities alive in ways that will capture readers’ imaginations. Your fans will feel like they know and love (or hate) your fictional beings so much that they become fully invested in their dramas, traumas, and joys.

In this workshop, we will:

Discuss how and why to avoid the pitfalls of stereotypes and tropes.

Learn the importance of details, idiosyncrasies, and consistency.

Explore how to use dialogue for character development.

Acquire and utilize tools that help you get to know your characters at their core.

Discuss and employ a variety of skills and techniques that allow your characters to bloom and

soar.

Class times

10:30 AM to 4:30 PM with a lunch break 12:30 to 2:00 PM

Harrie Farrow

Harrie Farrow is a novelist, poet, and editor with a background in investigative reporting, feature

writing, and blogging. She brings to her work an eclectic personal history including growing up in the Virgin Islands, spending her 20s in San Francisco, and owning a fine dining restaurant in the Ozarks. She has also traveled extensively in Europe and the Caribbean. Harrie has varied experiences with advocacy and activism, including being arrested several times for civil disobedience in Washington D.C., and is also a thrice-elected official who represents Eureka Springs in county government.