“Pyramid Tipping:
How to Build Great Fiction and Nonfiction Characters
From the Top Down”
A Morning Workshop
With Instructor
Martha Engber
Whether writing a memoir, novel, screenplay, or creative nonfiction, the characters we write about must spring to life. At stake is getting the attention of agents and publishers and, ultimately, our readers. Through writing exercises and discussion, we will learn how to find and isolate that one telling detail upon which we will base each character. Workshop instructor Martha Engber is the author Growing Great Characters From the Ground Up. She also maintains the Q&A blog, “Growing Great Writers From the Ground Up”. In the fall of 2009, she received a 5-star “original and highly recommended” rating from Midwest Book Review for her literary novel, The Wind Thief (Alondra Press). Visit Martha on the web.