Special goodie for paid subscribers! If you love middle grade characters and voice but have struggled to translate that into plot, this class will get you started!
It’s hard to feel like you have control over anything at all when you’re in middle school. Seems less like you making life happen than life happening to you. Yet as writers we’re told that our characters need to be proactive and impact the plot. (And maybe character comes much more naturally to some of us than plot does…) So what’s the missing connection here? How do we write those proactive, strong-voiced middle grade characters that make shirt happen and drive the plot? Can even shy, withdrawn characters articulate something as wibbly wobbly as story structure? (You know it.) Come learn how character creation can secretly be plot development! While the focus and examples will be on middle grade, the principles can apply to any genre or age category. Get in writers, we’re going plotting!
*This class was originally recorded at the Storymakers Writing Conference in Utah.
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