Crafting Compelling Characters: An online three-session workshop for storytellers, writers, GMs, and others

  • April 27, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • Central Daylight Time

Ticket Price $25.00-$105.00 Register Now
Description

Have you ever struggled with character creation? Do your characters ever seem flat, feckless, or out-of-control? This happens to everyone from time to time. Join master storyteller Laura Packer for a three-session online workshop that will help you deepen your characters, discover meaningful and useful backstory, create more meaningful narratives, and more. 

We will explore:

  • why well-crafted characters are essential for good stories
  • how to create a believable character
  • methods to deepen your understanding of your characters and their roles in your work
  • creative exercises like interviews, letters, improv, and more
  • what to do when your characters have minds of their own
  • how good characters make dialogue more believable
  • and more!

Workshop dates are April 27, May 4, and May 11. While the check out only indicates one date, the cost covers all three sessions.

This workshop will be fun, useful, and impactful for anyone whose work involves developing characters. Please join us!

Date & Time

Sun, Apr 27, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Laura Packer

The stories we tell matter. Whether we are telling to kids, crafting a presentation for work, preparing for a concert, or something else entirely, what we say and how we say it is important. 

Listening matters. When we listen to each other we find understanding and compassion we might otherwise have missed. 

Storyteller, coach, and author Laura Packer has 30+ years of experience helping people create and share stories, listen to each other more deeply, and leading organizations and individuals to better stories and deeper self-understanding.. She understands the transformational power of storytelling and listening, and how they help us understand ourselves, each other, and the world.

In addition to her award-winning performance and writing work, Laura is an experienced coach and educator, helping people understand themselves, their stories, and their worlds.. Her coaching and teaching work ranges from storytelling to writing to creativity to social change and more, and has been described as "transformational."

As the sole proprietor of thinkstory.com, Laura helps for- and non-profits identify, craft and hone their stories. Whether for marketing, recruitment, fund raising, leadership, or something else, every organization has stories that need to be told.

Find out more at laurapacker.com and thinkstory.com