Saturday - Sunday September 26th - 27th
Nature of Writing Well BEtreat®
At Mondiwell
The Heart & Soul of Character
The Heart & Soul of Character
Master Fiction with Award-Winning Writers and Teachers
Marjan Kamali & Michelle Hoover
BE Curious and Comfortable while Crafting Character in Literary Concord
Nature of Writing Well BEtreat®
Immerse yourself in a restorative weekend of creativity on a beautiful private property in historic Concord, where nature and quiet contemplative spaces inspire both your writing and your imagination.
Led by internationally acclaimed and award-winning authors Marjan Kamali and Michelle Hoover, this intimate BEtreat® features inspiring workshops, guided writing exercises, opportunities for individual mentorship, and meaningful connection with fellow writers.
The Core of Character
with
Marjan Kamali
International and NY Times Best-Selling Author of
The Lion Women of Tehran & The Stationery Shop
Our fictional worlds are only as believable as the characters who move within them. As F. Scott Fitzgerald said: “Character is plot, plot is character.” In this workshop we will explore how action, thought, speech, point of view, setting, and subtext are used in character development.
While it’s true that our characters’ decisions drive plot, often socioeconomic, geopolitical, and domestic circumstances deeply alter the choices available to our characters. We will delve deep to understand the specific wants, regrets, fears, triumphs, and secrets of our main characters.
More than ever, publishers are looking for manuscripts with characters who have complex interior lives. But what is interiority? What is the difference between interiority and exposition? How much is too much? Or too little? When can interiority simply be implied?
A characters’ interiority is not only what they think or feel, but how. And it’s often the uncomfortable, embarrassing glimpses of a characters’ inner life that makes for the best interiority, the very kind that writers attempt to hide in themselves. With examples and writing exercises, this session will help not only you understand your characters' interiority better but get it on the page in a way that’s unique and engaging, without weighing down your manuscript.
Creating Complex Interior Lives
with
Michelle Hoover
Award-Winning Author of
Bottomland & The Quickening