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Story Builders! Let's Get Started Plotting!

with Alicia Rasley

Here’s your chance to get started with the guidance of a veteran writer and affirmative editor, Alicia Rasley. We’ll start with your idea, and build out from there—explore the characters, organize the plot, outline dramatic events.

Do you have a story in you? Is there an idea or character you want to explore? Here’s your chance to get started with the guidance of a veteran writer and affirmative editor, Alicia Rasley. We’ll start with your idea, and build out from there—explore the characters, organize the plot, outline dramatic events. Here’s what we’ll be doing in this fun and practical workshop:

1. Developing your story through the Three Plotlines (External, Internal, Interactional)
2. Channeling your characters and discovering their journey, goal, and strengths/weaknesses
3. Changing the characters through events of the plot
4. Intensifying the conflict and character change
5. Ending the story with drama and resolution

It sounds like a lot, but we can do it all in one workshop! By the time we’re done, you’ll have an outline of the three acts of the story plot, AND a summary of the character’s internal journey. You’ll be excited and ready to get started writing or revising your story! There’s a bigger market for stories than ever before, so here’s your chance to plunge right into that story you’ve wanted to write.

ALICIA RASLEY is an award-winning novelist whose mystery, science fiction, family saga, and romance novels have been released by major publishers. She has edited dozens of stories and teaches fiction writing in workshops and online. She teaches writing and American literature at Everglades University. An Indiana native, she currently lives on the White River, and is developing a podcast about the challenges that come up when you’re plotting a story. She loves to help brainstorm other people’s stories and research solutions to writing and grammar problems! Her writing articles can be found at www.aliciarasley.com.

Get your creativity started flowing with this list of Writing and Creativity, and mark your calendar for our annual Meet an Author, Be an Author on October 19, 2024 at Central Library. 

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