Just when I needed it, Melanie offers a great blog post on character. Look out – Miss Marly is back in town and my fingers are ready to fly!
I spent the afternoon with Lauren Carter, her mother, Laura (a visual artist with a good feel for story), and five other wonderful writers talking, and writing, about character.
Lauren is on a tour to promote her literary dystopian novel,Swarm, which was released in September by Brindle & Glass publishing. She’s been to Orillia and Blind River (both places she used to live), and has made a stop in Sudbury for a couple of days before she heads south to continue her journey.
As part of her Sudbury leg, Lauren agreed to offer a writing workshop for the Canadian Authors Association Roving Writers program. Tomorrow night, she will be giving a reading at the south end branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library as part of the Luminaries reading series.
Lauren indicated that nothing she had to teach was proprietary and so I’m going to offer a…
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Marilyn Slagel 
Thanks for the reblog, Marilyn 🙂