Those Who Forget History: Using Backstory to Enhance Your Novel – Cynthia Owens
We will cover:
What is Backstory?
Flashbacks and How to Use Them,
The Five Ws of Backstory—Who, What, Where, When and Why—of a character’s past.
Prologues—how to use a prologue to provide backstory.
Dialogue—how to manipulate your readers by using a character’s dialogue to hint at backstory.
Weaving—how to weave backstory into your story.
Inner Thought—revealing your character’s backstory through inner thought.
What Do They Want?—how your character’s backstory can affect his goals.
The New Way to Plot: Using backstory to plot your novel
Prequeling: Harvesting Backstory for Further Tales – Beth Henderson
Sure, these could be spin-offs. I’ve done my share of spin-offs, which bump a previously secondary character into the role of main character. Recently, though, I discovered yet another avenue to travel down. The PREQUEL.
Gut Punch: Using Emotional Conflict as Plot Intensive 2-week Workshop – Tere Michaels
We’ll examine the difference between internal conflict and external trauma and how they can bring a reader closer to the character – or drive them away.
Character Building Part of 3 – Using Emotional Conflicts as Plot 2-Weeks, Oct 2th – Sept 13th
Core Wounds sit in the heart of every person – both real or fiction.
Character Building Part of 2 – Core Wounds 2-Week, Sept 4th – Sept 15th
Core Wounds sit in the heart of every person – both real or fiction.
Character Building Part of 2 – Core Wounds 2-Week, Sept 4th – Sept 15th
Core Wounds sit in the heart of every person – both real or fiction.
He Said, She Said: Define Your Characters With Dialogue
Define Your Characters With Dialogue, and learn not only what dialogue is and what it should do, but how to use backstory, how to use accents, foreign words, and phrases, and local slang.