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SUMMARY:CAA/SFC Webinar: Characterization and Character-driven Conflicts
DESCRIPTION:Characterization and Character-driven Conflicts\nRon Friedman \nConflicts have stood at the heart of storytelling since the dawn of Humankind. Learn how the latest discoveries in brain science and human behaviour can help you grow three dimensional characters motivated by different world views in complex societies that confront each other a in a believable manner. Eliminate the BS factor. Make your conflicts shine. \nDuring this webinar\, you will learn a simple psychological model that can help you as a writer to understand human behaviour and utilize this model in your writing to create reliable characters that readers can relate to and understand their motives. \nYou will also learn a few philosophical worldviews and how to combine those views with the above model to spark believable character driven conflicts. \nThen we will analyze several characters from known stories and see how this model applies. \n  \nCost: This Canadian Authors / SF Canada series is free due to COVID-19’s impact on the writing community; space is limited. \nAbout the Presenter \nRon S. Friedman is an award-winning science fiction author from Calgary. His novel\, Typhoon Time\, is an Amazon.ca #1 Best Seller in Time-Travel; his collection\, Escape Velocity\, is a Calgary Herald #1 Best Seller\, and his story\, Game Not Over\, is a Best Short Fiction finalist in the 2016 Aurora Awards\, Canada’s premier Science-Fiction and Fantasy awards. \nRon’s short stories have appeared in Galaxy’s Edge\, Daily Science Fiction\, Neo-Opsis\, Polar Borealis\, Enigma Front and in other magazines and anthologies. Ron co-edited three anthologies and he received ten Honorable Mentions in Writers of the Future Contest. \nOriginally from Israel\, Ron is living with his loving wife and two children in Calgary\, Alberta. Ron is currently working on his second novel. \n  \nRegister now for Characterization and Character-driven Conflicts
URL:https://canadianauthors.org/national/event/webinar-characterization-and-character-driven-conflicts/
CATEGORIES:Presentation,Webinar,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Word On The Street Toronto Book & Magazine Festival - Cities Gone Viral: Assessing Canada’s Response to COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:The first event in the 2020 City Imagines series considers COVID-19\, its impact on communities across Canada\, and the response by Canadians\, our governments\, and public officials. Moderator Shawn Micallef interviews author Thea Lim\, writer and activist Nora Loreto and Toronto Star columnist Shree Paradkar. \nPresented by The Word On The Street\, City Imagines explores books that shape cities. Join us online for a wide ranging series of discussions about cities and the people who shape them. The full City Imagines schedule can be found here. \nStreaming details for this session will be emailed to attendees before the event. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nShawn Micallef is a weekly columnist with the Toronto Star\, co-founder of Spacing magazine\, and an instructor at the University of Toronto. He is a frequent commentator on urban issues and is known for his passion for the city – its geography\, architecture\, culture\, and people. \nThea Lim is the author of the novel An Ocean of Minutes\, about a woman who becomes a migrant labourer to escape a pandemic and save her lover. It was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her writing has been published by Granta\, the Paris Review\, the Guardian\, Best Canadian Stories\, and others. She lives in Toronto. \nNora Loreto is a writer and activist based in Quebec City. She is the editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media. Her next book\, Take Back The Fight (Fernwood) will be published in October\, 2020. Nora has been tracking COVID-19 deaths in residential care\, nightly\, for four months. \nShree Paradkar\, a Toronto Star race and gender columnist\, is the 2018-2019 recipient of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. The author of Betrayed: My cousin’s wrongful conviction for the murder of her daughter\, Aarushi\, she has been a journalist in Bangalore\, Mumbai\, Singapore and Toronto. Shree was recently awarded two Amnesty International Media awards for Human Rights reporting. \nRegister HERE. 
URL:https://canadianauthors.org/national/event/the-word-on-the-street-toronto-book-magazine-festival-cities-gone-viral-assessing-canadas-response-to-covid-19/
CATEGORIES:Book Fair,Panel,Presentation,Virtual Festival
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