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Story Builders! Let's Get Started Plotting!
with Alicia Rasley
2025-03-15 14:00:00
2025-03-15 16:00:00
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Story Builders! Let's Get Started Plotting!
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.
Lawrence Branch -
Saturday, March 15
2:00pm - 4:00pm
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2025-03-15 14:00:00
2025-03-15 16:00:00
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Story Builders! Let's Get Started Plotting!
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.
Lawrence Branch -
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:
- Developing your story through the Three Plotlines (External, Internal, Interactional)
- Channeling your characters and discovering their journey, goal, and strengths/weaknesses
- Changing the characters through events of the plot
- Intensifying the conflict and character change
- 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.
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Lawrence Branch
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About the branch
The Lawrence Branch opened in 1967 on North Franklin Road in a storefront previously occupied by the Lawrence Post Office. It was the first branch to open within an incorporated town in Marion County. Rapid population growth demonstrated the need for a larger, permanent facility to serve the northeast side. A 3.44 acre site was purchased from MSD Lawrence Township for a new 13,500-square-foot library that opened in 1983.
Renovated in 2020, the Lawrence Branch re-opened to changes that maximized access to the Library’s services and collections, created engaging and functional spaces for those of all ages, and increased access to new technology. The project also provided group study and tutoring areas, improved lighting, more outlets for charging stations, and updates to the entrance, public restrooms and interior finishes.