Local author Renee Pickup will be leading the HOWL writing workshop this Friday on the CMC campus in room 101 from 2 to 4pm.
Renee Pickup is a Marine Corps vet and writer/editor of both crime fiction and true crime. She’s the co-author of the novel Black Sails, Disco Inferno with Andrez Bergen, and her short fiction has been published widely. Renee hosts the weekly Mil-Tree writers’ group and discusses cults on her livestream The Cult Bar.
Renee’s lesson plan for the workshop will focus on what she refers to as “whole character,” or, characters that are not necessarily good nor bad. Rather than writing your protagonist as an angel – how do you write a “bad” character your reader can root for?
Renee will use examples from popular fiction, films, and essays to dig into the art of the complicated protagonist for the first hour, then an open discussion and Q&A for the second hour.
She says, “I want to bring the ideas and opportunities that come from writing a “bad person” as a protagonist to the attendees, and hopefully encourage them to look at their characters from different angles.”
