4/21 Class - How to Write Engaging Characters with Oksana Marafioti $20
Date: 4/21
Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
Cost: $25/$20 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Everyone loves masterfully crafted book characters, but what does it take to bring one to life? Wrestling with fictional characters is a familiar pastime for experienced as well as new writers. Yet, every reader who cracks open a book expects to be fascinated by the people they meet there. It’s an ongoing struggle to create realistic characters who fulfill all the functions of story and resonate with the reader as real, engaging people. In this class, we will learn the basics of writing characters and the ways to form and maintain realistic, entertaining individuals that inhabit our stories.
Your Instructor: Oksana Marafioti is the founder of Lounge Writers and the bestselling author of American Gypsy: A Memoir (FSG, 2012). Her writings have appeared in Rumpus, Slate, and Time magazines, literary journals The Fairy Tale Review and Pilgrimage, and in several anthologies. Oksana was the 2013 BMI - Library of Congress Literary Award Recipient. In 2016, she was the U.S. Government-sponsored literary ambassador to the Czech Republic. She was the 2020 recipient of the Picador Excellence in Literature Award from the University of Leipzig, Germany. A classically trained pianist, Oksana also holds a B.S. in Cinematography and an MFA in Creative Writing.
Date: 4/21
Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
Cost: $25/$20 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Everyone loves masterfully crafted book characters, but what does it take to bring one to life? Wrestling with fictional characters is a familiar pastime for experienced as well as new writers. Yet, every reader who cracks open a book expects to be fascinated by the people they meet there. It’s an ongoing struggle to create realistic characters who fulfill all the functions of story and resonate with the reader as real, engaging people. In this class, we will learn the basics of writing characters and the ways to form and maintain realistic, entertaining individuals that inhabit our stories.
Your Instructor: Oksana Marafioti is the founder of Lounge Writers and the bestselling author of American Gypsy: A Memoir (FSG, 2012). Her writings have appeared in Rumpus, Slate, and Time magazines, literary journals The Fairy Tale Review and Pilgrimage, and in several anthologies. Oksana was the 2013 BMI - Library of Congress Literary Award Recipient. In 2016, she was the U.S. Government-sponsored literary ambassador to the Czech Republic. She was the 2020 recipient of the Picador Excellence in Literature Award from the University of Leipzig, Germany. A classically trained pianist, Oksana also holds a B.S. in Cinematography and an MFA in Creative Writing.
Date: 4/21
Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
Cost: $25/$20 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Everyone loves masterfully crafted book characters, but what does it take to bring one to life? Wrestling with fictional characters is a familiar pastime for experienced as well as new writers. Yet, every reader who cracks open a book expects to be fascinated by the people they meet there. It’s an ongoing struggle to create realistic characters who fulfill all the functions of story and resonate with the reader as real, engaging people. In this class, we will learn the basics of writing characters and the ways to form and maintain realistic, entertaining individuals that inhabit our stories.
Your Instructor: Oksana Marafioti is the founder of Lounge Writers and the bestselling author of American Gypsy: A Memoir (FSG, 2012). Her writings have appeared in Rumpus, Slate, and Time magazines, literary journals The Fairy Tale Review and Pilgrimage, and in several anthologies. Oksana was the 2013 BMI - Library of Congress Literary Award Recipient. In 2016, she was the U.S. Government-sponsored literary ambassador to the Czech Republic. She was the 2020 recipient of the Picador Excellence in Literature Award from the University of Leipzig, Germany. A classically trained pianist, Oksana also holds a B.S. in Cinematography and an MFA in Creative Writing.