Writing Workshop: Building Characters for Your Story

What to expect:

In this writing workshop we’ll use guided writing to experiment with creating convincing and interesting characters for your story.

For Our Audience:

How do we create convincing characters on the page?

What are the elements required to breathe life into characters, to make them into living people moving through the prose world you have created?

Do you struggle to find a voice for your characters?

How can we use physicality, the senses, description, to build a person out of words?

Together we will explore a variety of experimental exercises to create characters that resonate in the minds of readers.

This workshop will help you develop your practice in a nurturing environment that’s stimulating and fun. Whether you are writing from life, from your own experiences, using fictional ideas or a combination of all those, this workshop will give you tools and techniques to help build on character sketches, fleshing them out into multi-dimensions in impactful ways.

There will also be the opportunity to share what you’ve written in a supportive and trusting environment and to receive professional level feedback should you want it.

Michael's workshops are technology free. Please bring a pen and paper.

Your host:

Dr. Michael Langan (he/him)Writer, Editor, Mentor, Writing Coach, Teacher.

Michael Langan has been teaching creative writing in a variety of contexts for over twenty years, including at two U.K. universities. He now works on a freelance basis as a writing mentor, editor, teacher, and manuscript assessor, and has a PhD in creative writing.

Michael's first novel, Shadow is a Colour as Light Is, was published by LUME (U.K.) in 2020. His approach to teaching creative writing is a nurturing and holistic one and he strongly believes in the inherent value of everyone's individual and unique voice.

He sees the workshop as a space in which that voice can be explored more deeply and in different ways, as well as an opportunity to receive guidance, feeback, and practical advice on writing techniques.

Location of the event:

Fable Bookshop Cafe, Rua dos Prazeres 10A, Lisbon, 1200-820

About the Venue: Fable

Fable is an English bookshop, cafe, and creative events space in Lisbon. We offer wholesome meals, specialty coffee, natural wine, and a thoughtfully curated selection of both fiction and non-fiction books. We also host a medley of events and workshops focused on creativity, wellness, book and music launch parties, and inclusive community gatherings.

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