Date: To Be Determined

The Core Decision

Finding the Key to Character Transformation Using Your Own Life

Instructor: Jolie Kramer aka Jo Leigh

Cost: $75.00 payable by PayPal

Workshop Description: Here’s what I believe: Novels that involve the reader are about characters. Special characters. Characters who, through the course of the novel, go through a transformation. In romance novels, the characters transform because of their involvement with the other primary character (as opposed to, say, finding Moby Dick). I also believe that the only reason for plot is to force our characters into situations that make them have to chose. To transform.

The Core Decision is all about creating characters. It’s about using your own life, the joys, the tragedies, the love, the desperation that made us who we are. It’s about breathing life into your hero and heroine and your villain so that each of them leap off the page and into the reader’s heart. In this workshop, we will cover:

The Core Decision

• The Child’s Interpretation

• The Decision

• The Fallout

• Reinforcements

• Recognition

• The New Decision

• Actions = Transformations

The Process of Discovery

• Remembering

• Writing it out

• Shame

• Pain

The Fatal Flaw

• Character Arc and Emotions

• Transference — how plot reveals character

• Multiple Levels of Interaction — All the Yous of You

About the Instructor: Jolie Kramer, who writes romance under the name Jo Leigh, is a three-time RITA finalist and bestselling author of over 45 novels. She began her career in film, where she studied with Robert McKee, Syd Field and other brilliant teachers. Her TV series Mystagogue was optioned by Cinemax, and her screenplay Geezer’s Run was optioned by Northern Lights Productions. She also ghost-authored Great Big Beautiful Doll- The Anna Nicole Smith Story. Jolie has taught story structure and writing classes in workshops all over the country. To get her complete bibliography and learn more about her, go to www.joleigh.com/bio