Elaine Raco Chase
Creating Compelling Characters
6 weeks: Saturdays, June 5- July 17, 2010 - 10 a.m. to 12 noon
$125 (Current MDC faculty and credit students: $100)

Course will take place at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus

Elaine Raco Chase has been a published author for 30 years - with all books still in print in the US and in 24 countries and 17 languages.  She has written 14 bestselling romance novels, 2 award winning mystery novels, edited a book of mystery short stories, and was nominated for the prestigious Agatha Christie Award for her best-selling how-to book:  The Amateur Detective. She has been a past president of many local romance writer's chapters, past national president of Sisters in Crime, and has taught creative writing at colleges and universities in the US and Canada.  

Why are characters important?  From Sherlock Holmes, who still gets mail daily, to Scarlett and Rhett, to Hannibal Lector and Nancy Drew- fictional characters often stay in the hearts and minds of readers.  This intensive writing class will help you learn the six steps to creating compelling characters, and will also show how settings can be strong characters, and how to create villains that people love to hate.  You will build protagonists, antagonists and global and chapter settings - so that you can continue to finish your novel.

Date and Time
Saturdays
June 5- July 17, 2010
10 a.m. to 12 noon

Fee
$125, pre-registration required
(Current MDC faculty staff and students: $100)

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.