Crafting Characters That Drive the Narrative with Emily Jon Tobias—Starts April 6

Let your characters take the wheel and drive your narrative.

This fiction writer's workshop will explore a detailed method for crafting character-driven fiction by building characters from their roots up. 

In this generative workshop experience, we will take a deep dive into narrative structure by way of the character. You will learn how creating characters with the capacity to change determines plot.

You will also learn how to unwind character psychology and understand the root fears and emotions thatcause their choices. In better understanding your characters, you will gain a tighter rein on the structure of your fiction, essential for writing compelling stories.

Workshop Takeaways

Students will leave with a firm grasp on how to navigate the process of writing character-driven fiction. At the culmination of the workshop period, students will be inspired to learn more from their characters and will have generated work to take with them. What's more, students will leave with a sense of belonging and community within the group atmosphere we create during the workshop.

Additional info

If you can't attend this class live, it will be recorded! Students will receive a recording the day after the class, and it will be available for 30 days.

About the Instructor

Emily Jon Tobias is an American author and poet. She is an award-winning writer whose work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, along with other honorable mentions, and has been featured in various literary journals and magazines including Santa Clara Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Big Muddy, Talking River Review, Peauxdunque Review, and elsewhere. MONARCH: STORIES (Black Lawrence Press, 2024) is her debut collection, winner of the 2024 American Book Fest International Book Awards, finalist for the 2024 American Book Fest Fiction Awards for a short story collection, and honored as a distinguished favorite in the 2024 NYC Big Book Award. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Pacific University Oregon, and in 2024, she was accepted as a mentor for the PEN Prison Writing Mentorship Program. Midwestern-raised, she now lives and writes on the coast of Southern California.