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Unlikeable on Purpose—A Three-Hour Webgasm w/ Lidia Yuknavitch

June 26, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

$150
Online, N/A, Portland, OR 97207

WHAT: A three-hour online webgasm with Lidia Yuknavitch and at least one special guest. (With a 15-minute intermission.)

WHEN: Saturday, June 26th 1PM-4PM Pacific (4PM-7PM Eastern)

WHERE: ZOOM. Meeting ID will be provided ahead of time. (Interested in this event but unable to join it live? All registered attendees will receive a link to a recording of it that will be viewable for one week afterwards.)

HOW MUCH: $150. Payment plans are available, contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com

SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarships are always available. Click here to apply.

(Note: This offering is available as part of a three-webinar bundle along with Beyond The What: The Heart and Guts of Memoir and Revivify: Breathing Life into Dead Matter. Each webinar is $150, but you can sign up for all 3 for $395. Just choose the BUNDLE option from the drop-down menu when adding this to your cart.)

Unlikeable on Purpose

Underneath the chatter and hum from the market and readers about how much trouble they have with unlikeable characters lies a different truism: unlikeable characters are punk rock. They are qualitatively different from antagonists or villains, because face it: they are us. Unlikeable characters don’t need you to like them because their sense of self doesn’t come from praise or adoration. Their complications and motivations and actions and reactions are intriguing because they don’t follow the social script of good citizenship. So if you are interested in strategies for creating anti-heroes, misfits, and unlikeable characters no one can forget or help falling for, join me for a three hour webinar where we will look at some phenomenal examples and then zoom in on six writing strategies. Bring your favorite unlikeable character to the table. Confess: we love them!

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author the short story collection Verge (Riverhead Books), the novels The Book of Joan (Harper Books), The Small Backs of Children (Harper Books), and Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books), and the anti-memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books). Her TED Talk “On the Beauty of Being a Misfit” has received over 3 million views, and spawned The Misfit Manifesto (TED Books/Simon and Schuster). She lives and collaborates in Portland, Oregon at Corporeal Writing. She is a very good swimmer.

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Online
N/A
Portland, OR 97207

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Corporeal Writing
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