CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT/EXCAVATION:
In order to engage the reader a writer needs to have engaging characters. We have to write them with insight and authenticity, and, to do that, we need to have intimate insights into their lives. Join me as you abandon your pesky inner critic and explore your character's back story, loves, motivations, traumas, and triumphs. Bring a pen, paper and an open heart.
ABOUT RAHLA:
Rahla Xenopoulos is the author of “A Memoir of Love and Madness.’ (Random House) and the novels ‘Bubbles’ (Penguin), ‘Tribe’ (Penguin) and ‘The Season of Glass’ (Penguin).
She has published short stories in the anthologies ‘Women Flashing’, ‘Twist’, ‘Just Keep Breathing’, and ‘The Lockdown Collection’. She has written for The Sunday Times, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Oprah Magazine. Her latest book, The Season of Glass was a finalist for the Sunday Times Literary Awards.
Rahla was one of thirty-four South African women profiled in ‘The Power Within Companion’. She gives talks on mental health and empowerment, as well as hosting workshops that focus on health and personal inspiration.
She gives writing workshops to underprovided children and is on the boards of SA-Yes and Short Story Day Africa.
Rahla teaches writing in South Africa, as well as in Greece and New York, both privately and with The Westport Writers’ Workshop. She has worked with both experienced writers and novices from all over the world.
In an ideal world Rahla would have a broad mind and a narrow waist but failing the narrow waist she’ll just settle for the broad mind.
Rahla lives in New York with her husband and teenage triplets.
learn more at: http://rahlaxenopoulos.com/