03/01/10 - 03/12/10 - Online Workshop: The Power of the Senses; Enhancing Author's Voice, Characterization, and Conflict with Bill Haggart

When your character bites into an orange, does the reader taste it?

Learn which sense you prefer and how to use that to pull your reader in!

Looking for the opportunity to delve into Deep POV? Believable conflict?

This workshop's for you!

Elements of RWA Online Workshops

http://www.elementsofrwa.com/workshops.html

The Power Of the Senses; Enhancing Author's Voice, Characterization, and
Conflict
by Bill Haggart
March 1 - 12

Chapter Member $9, Non-member $15

To register for this workshop click here
<http://www.elementsofrwa.com/wkshp_reg2.htm> .

Description: Each of us have our own unique way of learning, and part of
that style involves which senses we favor in experiencing the world -- even
how we write and how we love. Everyone prefers one sense over the other
four: Kinesthetic, Tactual, Auditory, and Visual. Those preferences shape a
writer's voice, the characters they create as well as how their novel's
conflict and romance develops.

A writer can be trapped by their own style or they can use it to create
unique characters and believable conflict.

In this interactive workshop:

1. Participants will identify their own sensory preferences with a short
profile.
2. Participants will explore how sensory preferences influence a writer's
voice. Our choices depend on our preferences. We will examine the writing of
well-know authors to illustrate this aspect of the author's voice.

3. Participants will examine how sensory preferences influence behavior, and
therefore define character. Sensory Preferences reveals these sense choices
naturally, enhancing characterization. Participants will practice creating
distinctive characters and deep POVs with learning styles.

4. Participants will identify how sensory preferences can enhance believable
conflict. Any conflict begins with the senses. Examples will demonstrate
what readers know intuitively-the simplest things count. Including learning
preferences can make conflicts between characters far more real.

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Bio: Bill Haggart has been an educator for over thirty years. He has been a
teacher, an educational trainer, consultant, and executive with a national
training company. He is now heads up his own consultant business, Insights &
Innovations. He has presented to over 180,000 educators nation-wide and
worked with over 400 schools and organizations. He is the creator of the
Kaleidoscope Profiles, a popular learning styles inventory. He is also the
author of several educational books and articles.

He has been a member of RWA since 1998, as well as a terrific local group,
the Sacramento Valley Rose. He has won and placed in nearly a dozen contests
such as 'The Molly' and 'Suzannah' with both his contemporary, time-travel
and Regency novels.