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Character Flaws

Instructors: Sue Viders & Becky Martinez. A perfect character is a boring character. No one wants to read about someone who gets everything right all the time. Even Superman had his weakness. The best characters have a few frailties or imperfections that make them memorable. How do you get just the right flaws for your characters? This class can help you build flaws into your characters that not only make readers respond but also help to move your plot along. Learn now to turn your characters into real people by giving them flaws that touch the reader and yet propel the action and provide plenty of conflict.

	Join published authors Becky Martinez and Sue Viders, co-authors of the book, 10 Steps to Creating Memorable Characters, for a four-week class that will help you make your fearless, feisty heroines come alive with a flaw that can make them more realistic to readers. Give your hero a flaw that can make him lovable or even more tough, but in the end will make him unforgettable!

	This hands-on workshop will include lectures with exercises plus plenty of time for questions.  Both Sue and Becky will respond to your assignments and provide critiques of your work as well as suggestions.

WHEN:    Aug 20, 2012 - Sep 16, 2012

COST:   $15 for Premium Members
$25 for Basic Members

Cancellation policy: Registrations are non-refundable except when the workshop is cancelled by Savvy Authors.

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Sue Viders is the author of more than 20 books, numerous articles and columns for both artists and writers.  She is co-author of the book Heroes and Heroines, Sixteen Master Archetypes, which is used in many college and university writing courses and co-authored the book, 10 Steps to Creating Memorable Characters. Her latest writing book is an e-book titled The Fiction Writing Workbook, which takes writers from first idea through a completed novel. She also developed Deal a Story, an interactive card game consisting of 101 cards and six sections and is based on her Heroes and Heroines book.

She is a practicing artist, seminar leader, and educator with on-line classes both for writers and artists. 

Becky Martinez is an award-winning former broadcast journalist and published author who writes romance, mystery and romantic suspense.  Her newest suspense work is the novella, Shadows from the Past, available from The Wild Rose Press. Her last romantic suspense, Deadly Messages, is available in print and e-book format and was an Aspen Gold finalist. She has had several short stories published and contributed a short story to The Trouble with Romance, an anthology that was a 2007 New Mexico Book Award finalist.

Tags:    Craft, Characterization





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