Dynamic, realistic emotion and deep POV bring characters to life, making them compelling and believable. Use setting to deepen characterization and set mood, then add these great characters to a realistic plot with a dynamic middle, and you'll have a novel that grabs readers. This workshop will help to broaden your natural ability to make your stories more powerful and to enhance your unique writer's voice.

This continuing workshop will provide techniques to make emotion real by drawing from experience and understanding human nature. Emotion will arise from deepening point-of-view (POV) through creating revealing introspection and dialogue along with presenting realistic and consistent action/reaction.

Conferees will also learn techniques to avoid a sagging middle and how to use setting to not only enhance sense of place but to give insight to characterization by using metaphors, analogies, and motifs.