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Goal, Motivation, Conflict

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Alli Sinclair

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How do you drive your characters forward through the story? Throw their fictional lives into turmoil? Build up a conflict that seems insurmountable? How does understanding your character’s goals, motivations and conflicts help you write a compelling synopsis, blurb and tagline?

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Please note: this workshop is being Auslan interpreted

Learning outcomes

  • How to develop the right goals and conflict for your character
  • How conflict creates motivation for both the character and the reader
  • How to use the goals and conflict to define your story in pitches and query letters
  • The difference between internal and external conflict, and how to create both
  • Working the conflict resolution throughout the story

About Alli Sinclair

Alli is an adventurer at heart and has won multiple awards for her writing. She has lived in Argentina, Peru and Canada, and climbed some of the world’s highest mountains. Alli hosts the annual Writers at Sea cruise retreat and also works as a producer and script writer on international film projects.

Alli’s books explore history, culture, love and grief, the complexities of relationships and takes readers on a journey of discovery.

 

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Registration for this event ended on 21 January 2020 - 4:00
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