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.

Constance Hale is a San Francisco-based journalist. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, and many magazines. She is the author of Writing Character, Sin and Syntax, and Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch. 

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.