Saturday, September 5, 2020 The Story of Story (Youth) Categories: Official JB Events Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive), 4: Alexis David Workshops & Events
What makes a story a story and not just a series of events? In this lively workshop, we will look closely at this question, examining how to create characters and how they change, emotionally, within a story. Writers will be asked to design their own characters using Pinterest and questionnaires. We will take the view that the author is not creating character out of nothing, but rather from ideas and images already known to them and collaging them together to create a new text. This workshop is introvert and extrovert friendly. Writers will be invited to share their work or just follow along. Gentle encouragement will be provided, as well as resources for publication or further research into the ideas presented.
Where: Online Workshop
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Time: 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
TO REGISTER:
Email Writing Center Coordinator Robin Jordan at rjordan@justbuffalo.org.
This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 8 participants.
About the Teaching Artist
ALEXIS DAVID is a fiction writer, poet, and illustrator. She is the author of the chapbook The Names of Animals I Have Loved (Dancing Girl Press, 2019). She holds an MFA in fiction from New England College and a MA in education from Canisius College.