June 1 - 26, 2009
"Creating Your Hero's Fatal Flaw"
by Laurie Schnebly Campbell
Giving likable, plausible characters a compelling conflict is easier with Enneagrams. Counselors and personnel manager suse this personality tool to identify the heroic qualities (and not -so-heroic qualities) for each of none types: the Perfectionist, Nurturer, Achiever, Romantic, Observer, Skeptic, Adventurer, Leader and Peacemaker.
Each of these types has distinctive traits, including a fatal (or not so fatal) flaw, that will naturally bring them into conflict with other people...AND with themselves. Get ready for some hands-on-homework -- to do during June or at leisure -- and discover how to:
* Determine your character's unique traits (or your own)
* Turn all nine personality types into memorable characters
* Build internal & external conflict with each type's fatal flaw
* Resolve conflict by using each type' individual strengths
* Expand the possibilities for drama with subtypes and more
* Enhance characters you already have in mind or plan to create
Besides writing about memorable characters -- and how to create them -- Laurie writes for an ad agency, teaches online, narrates for Talking Books, dithers over www.BookLaurie.com, and enjoys playing with her husband & son, vacationing in Sedona (the red-rock town named for her great-grandmother) and working with other writers. "People ask how I find time to do all that," Laurie says, "and I tell them it's easy. I never clean my house!"
To register for the "Creating Your Hero's Fatal Flaw," click HERE.