Great fiction starts with the heroes and heroines we love. To bring those characters to life on the page, the author must craft heroes and heroines as real as the people we know. In this workshop, Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will show you how to understand your characters deeply and portray them on the page authentically so readers will love them too.

Come with questions, a work in progress, or an empty notebook. All writers are welcome in this casual, supportive environment.

Authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be on hand to answer questions and give encouragement. Bethany and Alex will also provide private, one-on-one critiques if you choose to have them read your work. Sharing your writing with other attendees is not required and is completely voluntary.

Fiction and memoir is made up of scenes: units of action that dramatize the unfolding events. In this workshop, Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will help you understand scenes as the building blocks of a story, explain why each scene needs a pivot point, and why a character should never be the same at the end of a scene as she was at the beginning.

Come with questions, a work in progress, or an empty notebook. All writers are welcome in this casual, supportive environment.

Authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be on hand to answer questions and give encouragement. Bethany and Alex will also provide private, one-on-one critiques if you choose to have them read your work. Sharing your writing with other attendees is not required and is completely voluntary.