Profiles: Getting Real Characters Into Your Stories

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Time: Saturday 10:30am

No matter the story, it is character that brings it to life — that draws your readers in and makes them want to stay awhile, helps them understand and lets them relate. Whether you're writing a personal essay, an obituary, or a feature article, at heart, all are profiles that need to reveal the personality of the subject. Too often the people in our stories come across as superficial cardboard or overdrawn caricature.  And too many profiles read like predictable, chronological biographies. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore ways to go beyond resumes that catalog what a person has done and instead reveal who a person is.

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