Hacks to make sure your characters aren’t boring stereotypes. Join Megan Choritz for an interactive, prompts-based class, to explore fabulous ways to create, flesh out, and then portray your literary characters. Dialogue, physicality, points of view and location are some of the things we will play with.

Megan Choritz is the recently published author of Lost Property, currently making waves on the South African literary scene. She wrote this doing Deadlines for Writers 52 Scenes. Her improvising experience has given her skills in making up characters on the spot, and some of those techniques and tricks are also fantastic for making up characters on the page.