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<\/a>Storytellers have known for millennia what psychoanalysts say about the symbolic power of objects to stand for the relative menace or benevolence of the world. From the Security Blanket to the Wedding Ring, from the soccer ball named Wilson to Carel Fabritius\u2019s painting of goldfinch, from Desdemona\u2019s handkerchief to Harry Potter\u2019s wand, objects have driven stories by revealing who the characters are in depth and breadth and in a flash of narrative. This session asks writers to use objects to develop their own fictional characters in a series of exercises involving real and imaginary objects. Presenter Susan Streeter Carpenter shares more info below:<\/strong><\/p>\nWho should attend? What can attendees expect from your workshop? Name one fun fact or bit of trivia about this session: Quick! Summarize the benefits of this workshop in 10 words or fewer: Any last words?<\/strong> \u201cObject Relations: A Workshop on Character Development\u201d with Susan Streeter Carpenter Friday, Nov. 14, 4:30-5:45pm (Session B1) Storytellers have known… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Fiction writers who want to give their characters more depth; writers who are trying out fiction and need to figure out what can be done with a character; writers with a partly-finished story and doubt about what to do next. People who are writing fiction for the first time and want to extend what they can DO.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Chances to write. Exercises in creating objects in scenes, using various points of view. Actual objects to write about.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I\u2019ve been re-reading Alison Bechdel\u2019s graphic memoirs, Fun Home<\/em> and Are You My Mother?<\/em> HOW AMAZING to see her develop her story with objects, drawing them and making stories of them.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>You\u2019ve come to Winter Wheat to write, to talk with other writers, and to have a good time. That\u2019s what my workshop is for.<\/p>\n
\nI borrowed the title from psychoanalysts Melanie Klein and D.W. Winnicott whom I don\u2019t know much about. But psychoanalysts have been borrowing from writers since Freud saw Sophocles\u2019 Oedipus Rex<\/em>, so I\u2019m being fair.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>The countdown to Winter Wheat 2014<\/strong> has officially begun! In these final weeks leading up to the event, we’re giving our presenters some space here on the blog to share additional details about their sessions, so be sure to check back for more previews. (Remember, this year’s Winter Wheat is bigger and better than ever — see this sessions list<\/a> for proof.) For more information on the conference, which takes place Nov. 13-15 on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, visit the Winter Wheat site<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"