Building Characters That Shape the Story

Writing Craft
2016
Featuring Jim Sanderson, Maegan Beaumont, Mary Coley, Matt FitzSimmons

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Do characters arrive fully formed, or do they evolve as the story unfolds? In this session, authors share readings from their work before discussing their approaches to character creation, exploring whether protagonists are carefully planned from the start or discovered through the writing process.

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