NEORWA MAY ONLINE WORKSHOP

THE POWER OF POV: USING IT TO BRING CHARACTERS TO LIFE

INSTRUCTOR: Candice Hern

WHEN: May 4 to May 15 (6 lessons posted over 2 weeks)

COST: $15 NEORWA members/$20 for all others. www.neorwa.com for registration information or contact Kristine Thompson at thompos@ameritech.net.

WORKSHOP:

This workshop, for beginning to intermediate writers, will present some basic skills for using deep 3rd-person point-of-view to bring characters to life, including some common pitfalls to avoid. This will not be a “To Head-Hop or Not To Head-Hop” workshop, but will instead focus on how to make the most effective use of POV in deepening and enriching characterization, how to REALLY get inside, and stay inside, a character’s head.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Although a fifth-generation Texan by birth (St. Joseph’s Hospital, Houston), Candice did most of her growing up in southern California. How such a delicate flower who wilts in the heat survived those years remains a mystery. She shook off the heat and smog and found her climatic destiny when she re-located to the Bay Area to attend graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. Today she lives on a hill in San Francisco where the typical summer is fog-bound and freezing, and she loves it.

Candice has been a voracious reader all her life. For many years she had been a devotee of Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Susan Ferrier, and other women writers of the Regency period. When she discovered Georgette Heyer and the Regency Romance genre (not so very long ago — it is not clear how she remained ignorant of the Great Georgette for most of her life) she was instantly hooked. After a few years of reading Regency Romances by the bagful, she decided to try her hand at writing one.

Her first book, A Proper Companion, was published in January 1995. She went on to publish five more traditional short Regency Romances, and now writes longer Regency-set historical romances.

Check out Candice’s website at www.candicehern.com to find out more about her writing!

This post was submitted by Kristine Thompson.

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