August Workshop

Exploring Your Inner Character

 

 

August 5, 2009

Selby Library – Upstairs

Time: 6:30 p.m.

 

Janet Albright will present a workshop designed to improve writing through developing a deeper understanding of the character.

 

“Yearning is always part of the fictional character. One way to understand plot is that it represents the dynamics of desire.” Robert Olan Butler

 

Desire is the heart of the narrative and is what drives and decides the plot. The August workshop will center on becoming proficient at being able to leave yourself and enter into the other (your character).

 

We’ll practice how to merge with the character and experience his or her internal landscape and to know the character’s world. Once you intuit what it is that your character yearns for on a deep level, you are ready for the real work of writing his or her story. Bring the idea of a new character, an old character, or one you’re working on right now. It will also be helpful to have something to write on and with.

 

Hemingway wrote: ”A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow spaces in his writing.” We can all use a reminder of how important it is to enter the heart, spirit, mind of a character. Sometimes it can even be fun to explore the deepest, most secret places of another.

 

This is sure to be a very informative event. Don’t miss it!

Pat Gray Selected For Publication

 Alfred Hitchcock Presents…

 

Pat Gray

Yes, that’s right! Sarasota Fiction Writer President Emeritus Pat Gray will be published in the upcoming October edition of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

It is not an easy feat to be accepted for publication by this venerable and prestigious publication, so CONGRATULATIONS, PAT!!!

 

Does anybody else notice the resemblance?

Alfred Hitchcock

  

Pat Gray

 

Congrats Pat!