The Heart of the Matter: Choosing Heroes, Heroines, and SidekicksA Write Brain Epic Quest
Date/Time Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM MDT
Location Online Via Zoom
CostFree!
DescriptionAnything can spark our writing journeys. Maybe we are struck by a knotty problem or an extraordinary setting, a remembered fairy tale or the image of a visionary climax. But no matter our story’s origin, it is our characters who will become its heart. Will we create a hero or heroine the reader can root for? Who is the person whose voice lures us through the narrative? And who are the particular companions or love interests or lieutenants who will enrich our telling? Let’s explore the origins of our story’s heart, and look at some ways to push our choices beyond the ordinary.
About the SpeakerCarol Berg majored in mathematics at Rice University, in part so she wouldn't have to write papers. But while earning her mathematics degree, she took every English course that listed novels on the syllabus, just so she would have time to keep reading.
Somewhere in the midst of teaching math, raising three sons, earning a second degree in computer science at the University of Colorado, and a software engineering career, another friend teased her into exchanging letters written "in character." Once Carol started writing fiction, she couldn't stop.
Carol's eighteen epic fantasy novels have earned national and international acclaim, including the Geffen Award, the Prism Award, multiple Colorado Book Awards, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. She has been twice voted the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Writer of the Year.
Carol's most recent work, written as her alter ego Cate Glass, is a fantasy adventure series called Chimera about a rag-tag quartet of sorcerers who take on missions of deception and intrigue in a world something like Renaissance Italy, where magic earns the death penalty. The first book is An Illusion of Thieves. Carol lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains with her Exceptional Spouse.
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