This year’s Compose conference will feature keynote speaker Stephen Graham Jones and offer workshops on a variety of writing topics such as science-fiction, fairytale, poetry, and comics.
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Whether we're writing fantasy, mystery, romance, or literary fiction, compelling characters are at the heart of most great stories. Plots are driven by what characters do (or don’t do). Emotions are filtered straight from our characters’ hearts and minds, and into our readers’. A strong, believable character can transform words on a page into a reader’s friend or foe, and stick with that reader for life. In this generative workshop we will look at examples of compelling characters from a variety of stories, and will discuss the craft elements that lift them off the page and into our world. We’ll build our own characters bit by bit, until we’ve created a person we’ll want to follow into our next great story.
