Morning Session: (Free to members-$5.00 for visitors) 10:00 am-12:00 (9:30 networking)
Portland Author and Writing Coach Jessica Morrell is author of Bullies, Bastards & Bitches, How to Write the Bad Guys in Fiction, published by Writer's Digest Books, and 5 other books, including several on writing. Topics include:
- how to tap into reader's primal fears,
- the moral continuum for fictional characters,
- the role of adversity and evil in fiction,
- and a bad guy's many uses in a successful story.
Categories include unlikable protagonists, antagonists, villains, sociopaths, and monsters. Morrell also explores the rise in popularity of anti-heroes and how these complicated characters reflect contemporary society.
Afternoon Session: ($30.00 for members, $35 for other participants) 1:30-4:30.
Anatomy of a Scene – Jessica Morrell will guide us to:
- Delve deeper into how to write a scene, the types of scenes needed to tell a story, and how to infuse change and emotional reversals into scenes.
- Read an action scene, an opening scene, and an exposition scene from three novels and discuss the choices the author made to create his or her scene.
- Discover how to breathe life into scenes using finer elements like mannerisms, gestures, and foreshadowing, to larger elements such as using surprises and cliffhangers.
- Pay special attention to the components of action scenes and as an exercise compose an action scene that stretches our imaginations and our way of seeing the writing process.
For further information go to the website www.willamettewriters.com/1/southernoregon.php or contact Phil Messina at soww77@gmail.com
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