CREATING UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS

What makes for unforgettable characters in fiction writing? What happens when we allow our characters to be as complicated and messy as the people we encounter in everyday life? In this generative writing workshop we’ll take a look at characters who make questionable choices, struggle through relationships and wrestle with life’s big questions and events. We’ll explore a range of literary techniques for creating backstory from memories and flashbacks to alternative methods like dialogue, action and POV shifts.  There will be plenty of generative exercises that will allow us to go deeper into where our characters are coming from and where they are going and allow it to inform the arcs of our works in progress.