SPECIAL CLASS: Creating Your Hero’s Fatal Flaw

by Laurie Schnebly Campbell

August 12-23, 2024

Giving likable, plausible characters a compelling conflict is easier with Enneagrams. Counselors and personnel managers use this personality tool to identify the heroic qualities (and not-so-heroic qualities) for each of nine types: the Reformer, Nurturer, Achiever, Romantic, Observer, Guardian, Adventurer, Leader and Peacemaker.

Each of these types has distinctive traits, including a fatal–or not so fatal–flaw that will naturally bring them into conflict with other people…AND with themselves. Get ready for some hands-on-homework (to do during the class or at leisure) and discover how to:

• Determine your character’s unique traits (or your own)
• Turn all nine personality types into memorable characters
• Build internal & external conflict with each type’s fatal flaw
• Resolve conflict by using each type’s individual strengths
• Expand the possibilities for drama with subtypes and more
• Enhance characters you already have in mind or plan to create

Besides writing about memorable characters–and how to create them–Laurie writes for an ad agency, teaches online, narrates for Talking Books, dithers over www.BookLaurie.com, and enjoys playing with her preschool grandson, vacationing in Sedona (the red-rock town named for her great-grandmother) and working with other writers. “People ask how I find time to do all that,” she says, “and I tell them it’s easy. I never clean my house!”

$40 per class, ($35 if paid by check)

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