In her workshop The Art of the Literary Portrait, Constance Hale offers writers pointers for observing and capturing human complexity.  How do you draw the physicality of a person in words? How do you get at the character's inner life? And how do you treat yourself—author, narrator, first-person voice—as a character? We will use prompts from Hale’s most recent book, Writing Character. The workshop will change the way you write.

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing. On November 1, participants begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59 PM on November 30.