Constructing Concrete Characters: Tips and Tricks

Your novel may have the hookiest hook and the most pulse-popping plot, but if your characters are little more than cardboard cutouts, you will likely lose your readers’ interest—fast. In this SDWEG presentation, we’ll cover concepts that will take your characters from cardboard and cliché to concrete and yay! Character arcs, character motivation, character goals, and more...come learn about constructing characters.

Angelica Hagman

Angelica Hagman has published more than sixty short stories and non-fiction articles in print magazines. As a life coach, Angelica helps her clients overcome internal and external obstacles, navigate the plot twists of life, and rock their character growth arcs. She's also a book cover designer, which has the added advantage/disadvantage of generating even more stories for her to write.

Marketing Support Group Meeting

Our monthly meetings start with a Marketing Support Group Meeting at 5.30pm, followed by  signing in and networking at 6:30pm, a short business meeting at 6:45pm, and the main presentation at 7 p.m.

Invitations with the Zoom meeting information will be sent to registrants in advance of the meeting.

RECORDING NOTICE: This online event enables an attendee to participate through a personal device's microphone and/or camera. An attendee may elect not to participate through use of a microphone and/or camera. The election of an attendee to use a microphone and/or camera constitutes a release and waiver of rights in the capture of the attendee's image, likeness, and/or voice for the exclusive use by the San Diego Writers and Editors Guild.