All Pennwriters Courses are conducted in a “live” presentation format utilizing the Zoom platform. If a conflict arises based on the required meeting times, please contact the instructor and Online Courses Coordinator to find a possible solution. ALL sessions will be recorded and available to registrants.
PLEASE NOTE: You should receive a confirmation email upon registering for the course from both Club Express and the Online Classes Coordinator. If you do not receive either email, please reach out to the Online Classes Coordinator immediately so you do not miss out on information for your class.
Description:
No matter what the genre, all of our stories are populated with characters. Have you been told that yours feel flat and uninteresting? Or they all sound alike? Or perhaps your main characters are vibrant, but your secondary characters feel like an afterthought. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create a full cast of unique characters that will threaten to jump off the page.
Be sure to bring
your laptop or a notepad and pen. We’ll be working on getting to know our characters with several
writing exercises during the course of the workshop.
Author Benefits/Takeaways
Participants will:
- Learn to use Point of View to its full advantage for ALL characters
- Learn how to develop a well-rounded, complex protagonist
- Learn how to create secondary characters who feel real and multi-dimensional
- Learn how to create an antagonist or villain that readers will love to hate
- Learn how to incorporate your characters’ individual goals, motivation, and conflict into your story
About the Instructor:
Annette Dashofy is the USA Today bestselling author of sixteen mystery novels including eight Agatha Award finalists and a Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award winner. Her most recent releases are The Devil Comes Calling and No Stone Left Unturned, the 3rd
and 4th in the Detective Honeywell mystery series.
Additionally, she has been a
Derringer Award finalist for her short fiction. Annette served on the Pennwriters Board of
Directors, was their 2013 Meritorious Service Award winner, and is vice president of the
Pittsburgh Chapter of Sisters in Crime, as well as a member of the International Thriller
Writers. She and her husband live on ten acres of what was her grandfather’s dairy farm
in Washington County, Pennsylvania with their very spoiled cat, Kensi.