10/07 Online Class - Building Fictional Relationships through Dialogue, Ritual, and Objects with Tommy Dean - $45/$36 For Members
Date: 10/07
Time: 11 am- 1 pm EST, 8 am - 10 am PST
Cost: $45/$36 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed before the start of the first session.
Join writer Tommy Dean for a two-hour generative writing session focused on creating and revealing characters through their relationships with other characters in micro and flash fiction! We’ll look at model texts and hopefully get inspired by the writing prompts! For me, story starts with character. Flash word count/space limits put pressure o the writer to create and or/reveal characters quickly, but specifically and uniquely if they want to form dynamic and affecting stories. The character is often our vehicle for the camera and the point of view. Their very essence can create a sense of possibility, and it's our job to use their actions on the stage of the story to create tension and conflict, to build resonance and a satisfaction while reading. One way to do all of this is to reveal characters through their relationships with other characters, to show the fissures in relationships and the tension in counterpointed or opposite characters.
Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks Special Like the People on TV (Redbird Chapbooks, 2014) and Covenants (ELJ Editions, 2021), and a full flash collection, Hollows (Alternating Current Press, 2022). He lives in Indiana, where he currently is the Editor at Fractured Lit and Uncharted Magazine. A recipient of the 2019 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction, his writing can be found in Best Microfiction 2019, 2020, 2023, Best Small Fiction 2019 and 2022. His work has been published in Monkeybicycle, Laurel Review, Moon City Review, Pithead Chapel, New Flash Fiction Review, and many other litmags. He has taught writing workshops for the Gotham Writers Workshop, the Barrelhouse Conversations and Connections conference, and The Writers Workshop. Find him at tommydeanwriter.com and on Twitter @TommyDeanWriter.
Date: 10/07
Time: 11 am- 1 pm EST, 8 am - 10 am PST
Cost: $45/$36 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed before the start of the first session.
Join writer Tommy Dean for a two-hour generative writing session focused on creating and revealing characters through their relationships with other characters in micro and flash fiction! We’ll look at model texts and hopefully get inspired by the writing prompts! For me, story starts with character. Flash word count/space limits put pressure o the writer to create and or/reveal characters quickly, but specifically and uniquely if they want to form dynamic and affecting stories. The character is often our vehicle for the camera and the point of view. Their very essence can create a sense of possibility, and it's our job to use their actions on the stage of the story to create tension and conflict, to build resonance and a satisfaction while reading. One way to do all of this is to reveal characters through their relationships with other characters, to show the fissures in relationships and the tension in counterpointed or opposite characters.
Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks Special Like the People on TV (Redbird Chapbooks, 2014) and Covenants (ELJ Editions, 2021), and a full flash collection, Hollows (Alternating Current Press, 2022). He lives in Indiana, where he currently is the Editor at Fractured Lit and Uncharted Magazine. A recipient of the 2019 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction, his writing can be found in Best Microfiction 2019, 2020, 2023, Best Small Fiction 2019 and 2022. His work has been published in Monkeybicycle, Laurel Review, Moon City Review, Pithead Chapel, New Flash Fiction Review, and many other litmags. He has taught writing workshops for the Gotham Writers Workshop, the Barrelhouse Conversations and Connections conference, and The Writers Workshop. Find him at tommydeanwriter.com and on Twitter @TommyDeanWriter.
Date: 10/07
Time: 11 am- 1 pm EST, 8 am - 10 am PST
Cost: $45/$36 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed before the start of the first session.
Join writer Tommy Dean for a two-hour generative writing session focused on creating and revealing characters through their relationships with other characters in micro and flash fiction! We’ll look at model texts and hopefully get inspired by the writing prompts! For me, story starts with character. Flash word count/space limits put pressure o the writer to create and or/reveal characters quickly, but specifically and uniquely if they want to form dynamic and affecting stories. The character is often our vehicle for the camera and the point of view. Their very essence can create a sense of possibility, and it's our job to use their actions on the stage of the story to create tension and conflict, to build resonance and a satisfaction while reading. One way to do all of this is to reveal characters through their relationships with other characters, to show the fissures in relationships and the tension in counterpointed or opposite characters.
Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks Special Like the People on TV (Redbird Chapbooks, 2014) and Covenants (ELJ Editions, 2021), and a full flash collection, Hollows (Alternating Current Press, 2022). He lives in Indiana, where he currently is the Editor at Fractured Lit and Uncharted Magazine. A recipient of the 2019 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction, his writing can be found in Best Microfiction 2019, 2020, 2023, Best Small Fiction 2019 and 2022. His work has been published in Monkeybicycle, Laurel Review, Moon City Review, Pithead Chapel, New Flash Fiction Review, and many other litmags. He has taught writing workshops for the Gotham Writers Workshop, the Barrelhouse Conversations and Connections conference, and The Writers Workshop. Find him at tommydeanwriter.com and on Twitter @TommyDeanWriter.