Rebecca Grace

October 24-30

Classes for 2011-2012

Sssh, Your Character has a Secret

Secrets are a staple in fiction. Just about any great leading character has some sort of secret he/she does not want the world to know. How can you come up with a secret for your hero or heroine and how can you use that secret to build conflict?

Join two published authors and teachers for a week-long class who will introduce you to the power of secrets—from big to small—from old to new—and who will show you how using secrets can build tension, provide conflict and make your character much more believable.

November 14-20

Savvy Authors

Building Character Arcs

We all know that stories have a beginning, middle and an end, but the character who starts out your story is going to be a lot different by the time the story ends. Characters grow, change and develop over the course of a good book. How does that happen and how can you build a character that will fully develop before the reader’s eyes? Why do you even need a character arc? How does it coincide with the story arc?

Join two published authors and teachers for a week-long class as they take you along the ups and downs of the Character Arc and see how to make your character grow so that by the time the story ends, the final determination will be believable and inevitable.

December 5-11

Savvy Authors

Constructing a "Good" Bad Guyu

Villains can be fascinating and sometimes readers will remember a good—or bad—villain long after they put down your book. How can you come up with convincing villains who are great challenges for your heroine/hero but who don’t take over the story? What makes a wonderful villain and what genres simply love a good villain? What about a lovable villain?

Join two published authors and teachers for a week long class as they explore the fascinating world of the bad guys and show you how to come up with “good” villains who menace without taking over your plot and overshadowing your real good guys

March 5-April 1

Savvy Authors

Creating Memorable Characters

Need some help developing characters who leap off the page? Want to get to know what makes your characters tick so that you can turn them into real flesh and blood heroes and heroines? Join us for a workshop that will help you learn how to make the characters in your books come alive. Discover how you can turn your hero and heroine from wooden figures into realistic people your readers will remember long after they put down the book.
Find out what it takes to develop your characters and then try using some of the useful tools in hands on exercises that can help you each time you tackle the problem of creating a new character, whether it be your heroine, hero or the villain. By the end of the workshop, each participant will know how to fully develop their characters and will take home the resources to help create truly memorable characters on their own.
Get some practical help from two of the authors of the book 10 STEPS TO CREATING MEMORABLE CHARACTERS!