Enhance Your Scenarios with Fiction Writing Tools

In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn:

• How to bring characters alive through action, dialogue, inner thoughts, and feelings

• Techniques to showcase cultural and familial influences that shape worldview

• Methods to move beyond tropes and clichés to create unique character perspectives

• Ways to make readers invest in your character's goals and motivations

About this workshop

You may think that writing vivid scenarios is a mysterious talent that only naturally gifted writers possess, but actually it's a craft that can be learned through specific fiction writing techniques and tools.

Discover how to show the lived experience of your characters. Make readers care about what their characters care about. Demonstrate how your characters interact with the world around them. Learn how to do these things, and you’ll be able to craft scenarios that feel authentic, engaging, and personally meaningful to your readers.

Your Instructor: Beth Barany

Your instructor is an experienced science fiction and fantasy novelist, creativity coach, and fiction writing teacher who hosts the 'How To Write The Future' podcast. With years of hands-on teaching experience, she brings practical tools and friendly guidance to help writers enhance their storytelling skills.

Who this workshop is for

This workshop is perfect for writers who want to create more engaging and personally meaningful scenarios in their work, whether they're writing fiction, creating future scenarios, or developing character-driven narratives.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 120 East J Street, Benicia, United States