
Online Class
Character: A Craft Intensive
with Patrick Ryan
February 25th - March 2nd
Price: $90
Members and previous Craft Intensive students: $75
In Character: A Craft Intensive with Patrick Ryan, you’ll focus on characters: how to develop them, how to deepen them, and how to use them to drive the story. Some writers start with character, others invent their characters as they go. However you approach your writing, this class will give you the tools you need to improve your characters and guide you towards writing fleshed-out, people-driven stories.
Over the course of six days, you’ll delve into physical description, build dynamic settings, sharpen dialogue skills, play with point-of-view, explore motivation and change. The methods taught in craft lectures, exercises, and in group discussions on the online message board will be ones that you can put to use long after the class ends.
About Patrick Ryan:
Patrick Ryan is the author of the short story collection The Dream Life of Astronauts (named one of the Best Books of 2016 by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Refinery 29, LitHub, and Electric Literature, and long-listed for The Story Prize) and the linked story collection Send Me, as well as three novels for young adults. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Tin House, Crazyhorse, The Yale Review, One Story, The Iowa Review, and Tales of Two Cities, among other magazines and anthologies. The former associate editor of Granta, he is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts in Fiction and is the editor-in-chief of One Story. For more info, please visit patrickryanbooks.com.
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Member Discount: In order to qualify for our member discount, you must be a member at the time of registration. Please note that the discount is for our members only. Members commit to annual donations and receive benefits that allow them to participate in the organization in more meaningful ways. Not all One Story subscribers are members. If you’d like to find out more about becoming a member, you can do so here.
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