Character Think/Character Speak

Dates: January 12-23, 2004
Instructor: Alicia Rasley

Course Description:

Viewpoint and dialogue -- the channel to the character's thoughts and feelings. Alicia Rasley will give you strategies for discovering the unique thinking and speaking style of each character, including perception skill, world view, and mood.

About the Instructor:

Alicia Rasley (www.rasley.com) is a Rita-award-winning romance author and an internationally known leader of writing workshops. Her books have been nominated for the Rita, the Regency Plume, the Colorado RWA award, the Romantic Times Best Regency Novel award, and Best Hero award. Rasley received an MA in English literature from Butler University. Now she teaches novel-writing at Indiana University-Indianapolis and online at www.rasley.com. Her writing articles have appeared in dozens of magazines and newsletters, and are available now on her website. Her writing books, The Story Within Plot Guide and The Power of POV are also available on her website. She lives in Indianapolis with her husband and two teen-aged sons.