Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Hooking Ideal Readers with Special Abilities, Magic, and Superpowers
with Robin Pool, NAIWE’s Science Fiction & Fantasy Expert
Cost: $30
How do authors create characters with special abilities that readers can’t get enough of? Ever wondered why Latin incantations and super strength produce perennial best-sellers?
Learn to design compelling character abilities by using a simple 3-step process and avoiding a few basic pitfalls. For any Speculative Fiction genre (from Paranormal Romance to High Fantasy to Steampunk Sci-Fi, even Vampire Littles) this class will help you:
- maximize your writing gold for your ideal audience
- integrate abilities into genre expectations, character growth, world-building, and reader aspirations
- avoid “puncturing the mystery balloon” and “pasting postage-stamps”
- prevent abilities from feeling overpowered or overused
- craft inclusive language and avoid sensitivity “hot spots”
This hands-on training includes workshopping case studies and editing real-life examples. Takeaways include a 3-page PDF with Do’s and Don’t’s, a 5-Step Design Framework, and a Compelling Characters Checklist to help you create from scratch or troubleshoot during revisions.
Learn to write special abilities that get your readers to finish a book, start the next one in the series, and recommend it to their friends. Make your words work like magic…or super strength! No Latin needed.