INSTRUCTOR: Nick Almeida
TIME: Four Thursdays, March 14, 21, 28, April 4, 6:00–9:00 p.m. CST
PRICE: Early bird price: $150 for members, $180 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Friday, March 8. After Friday, March 8: $180 for members, $210 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here.
LOCATION: Online via Zoom
LEVEL: All levels
CAP: 15
"On the subject of character development, William Trevor once said, “By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else.”
Is it possible to channel this idea of Trevor's? To strive to consider ourselves both the writer and the character, in terms of a kind of shared subjectivity? Can we be both writers, working at our desk, and simultaneously the character, embroiled in some drama on the page?
In this four-week workshop, we will investigate the strange borderland between author and character in order to better understand ourselves as writers, the ways our characters develop on the page, and what new strategies we might incorporate into our writing practices to create more vivid, complex characters.
This event is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance. This project is generously funded by the Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, and Mid-America Arts Alliance.