Happy Novel Day! Novel Day is a celebratio n of the craft of writing novels\, featuring workshops and panels presente d by some of the most beloved novelists in our region.
\nAbout the w orkshop: For many writers\, what's most fascinating and rewarding about wr iting a novel is spending many years and pages getting to know our charact ers. But sometimes characters can also start to feel like pawns that we're just trying to move through our scenes. How do we create conditions and s cenes in which our characters \;can \;surprise us? How do we appre ciate and use the moments they get &ldquo\;out of hand&rdquo\;? How can we let characters infuse scenes with their own perspectives? In this generat ive workshop\, we&rsquo\;ll briefly discuss these questions\, look at a fe w short samples\, and do some writing ourselves in response to a prompt.&n bsp\;
\nAbout the presenter: Alexandra Teague is most recently the a uthor of the poetry collection \;[ominous music intensifying] \;(P ersea 2024) and Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir (Oregon Stat e University Press 2023). She is previously \;the author of three book s of poetry and the novel The Principles Behind Flotation. \;She is cu rrently at work on her second novel\, and is a professor of creative writi ng and the chair of English at University of Idaho.
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