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Character Development

Writer in Residence
2025-02-01 10:00:00 2025-02-01 12:00:00 America/Phoenix Character Development Tempe Public Library - Ironwood Classroom

Saturday, February 01
10:00am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-02-01 10:00:00 2025-02-01 12:00:00 America/Phoenix Character Development Developing a story's characters. Tempe Public Library - Ironwood Classroom

Tempe Public Library

Ironwood Classroom

Developing a story's characters.

A story with no characters isn’t really a story at all, but how do we come up with those characters? Where do we start, and how do we develop them? Writer in Residence, James Ramos will show you how.

AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Writing |

TAGS: | Writing | Writer in Residence |

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