Live Training at 11am on Saturday, August 1st with Fin Leary.
About This Training
Our characters are the center of our stories. Without well developed characters, your readers won’t be as engaged in the story as they could be. This workshop will guide you through deepening the dynamics between your characters, so that tension and conflict feel fresh, and your reader is invested not only in each character, but also in their relationships with one another. How do you craft character relationships that feel real and flawed, and conflict that your reader cares about resolving without becoming frustrated?
About Fin Leary
Fin Leary (they/he) is a transgender and autistic author, a program manager at We Need Diverse Books, and a faculty member at Emerson College and GrubStreet. Fin was a 2024 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ+ Voices Fellow for Young Adult Fiction. Fin is the editor of the science fiction anthology Future States of Stars (OwlCrate Press, 2026). They are a contributor to the young adult horror anthology These Bodies Ain’t Broken edited by Madeline Dyer (Page Street Publishing, 2025). Their work has been published in the anthology About Us edited by Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, as well as the New York Times, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Cosmopolitan, The Oprah Magazine, Vice, Bitch, Teen Vogue, Healthline, and more. Fin lives with their orange literary cat and a rainbow bookshelf outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
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