Inlandia Institute's Breathing Life Into Characters Writer's Workshop Winter 2024 Session Two by Renee Gurley

Our Zoom Room

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The workshop is scheduled for alternating Saturdays, 1/13, 1/27, 2/10, 2/24, and 3/9, from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM PT, on Zoom.

How to navigate this Padlet Page

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A video tutorial on how to navigate this Padlet Page

Create a Writing Practice

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We will start with writing as a practice. I challenge you to open an account with 750words.com or get a notebook dedicated to your personal writing and write 750 words for as many days in a row as you can. We will discuss this process in our next session.

Describe Character in 3 words

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Describe the protagonist in 3 words and if you want, describe the antagonist in 3 words

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Writing Down the Bones

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Natalie Goldberg's revolutionary Writing Down the Bones...a freeing experience for those who have suffered from the red pen of a school marm... Place any thoughts or comments below...

Writing down the Bones 30th Anniversary

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Interview with Natalie Goldberg

Writing Prompts

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Where we left off...

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We ended our last class with a challenge to come up with 3 words you would use to describe your character...let's begin there and then work into the workshop and the character challenge for this session...

Make the character two dimensional

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Write a description of the character as seen by another character in the story. If there are a number of characters in the story, you may find it useful and illuminating to write at least two descriptions of each character, as seen by different people. This exercise will sharpen your own understanding of your characters, by forcing you to see each one from at least two sides.

E. Martinez

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A.Chamberlain

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F. Vasquez

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R. Goel

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C. Snow

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