Character-based Fiction Writing Workshop

Character-based Fiction Writing Workshop starting January 16

Instructor: Biff Mitchell
Start Date: Monday, January 16
7 pm
Marshall D’Avary Hall, Room ED329
Duration: Every Monday for 12 weeks

This workshop is for those who want to write fiction but don’t know how to translate that desire into finished stories. The workshop will cover the entire process from getting into a writing frame of mind, through studying real people to derive a story idea, to developing the idea into a finished story. The workshop will include field trips around the city (including mall food courts) to study people and settings in real life and applying those findings to the story-making process.

Discussions on topics such as creating dialogue, scenes, characters, images and symbols and other elements of your story will be informal and include feedback from workshop participants. The workshop facilitator is a published author in both print and ebook formats, and will draw on his personal experience to the best of his ability to answer questions on all matters relating to writing, publishing and book promotion.

The story you write will be based on the people you study during the character sketch field trip. If you have a work-in-progress, you can have a free two-hour consultation with the facilitator outside the regular workshop sessions, but you should develop an original story for the workshop.

You can expect to spend up to four hours a week on assignments in addition to daily journaling, the workshop sessions, and optional readings. You’ll need a computer with a word processing program and access to the Internet, plus a notebook and pen or pencil.

The cost is $200 for 12 weekly workshops.

To register or request more information, contact Andrew Titus, Program Development Officer at the UNB Art Centre, Memorial Hall at 452-6360.