Not a NERW member but want to attend the workshop? Join NERW now and receive access to our monthly workshops, private email forum, and Facebook group! Workshop Description: Having trouble writing believable romance characters? Try using the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI)® to transform your characters from cardboard cut-outs to people so realistic, they jump off the page.
This workshop will include:
- A brief overview of the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI)®, with some examples from both romance novels and real life
- How to use MBTI to develop rounded, complex characters, or to analyze characters you’ve already created
- How to use MBTI to think about character arcs
- How to use MBTI to develop character-driven conflict between your characters
- How to use MBTI to create romance arcs
Bio: Award-winning historical romance author Bliss Bennet writes smart, edgy novels for readers who love history as much as they love romance. Despite being born and bred in New England, Bliss has always been fascinated by the history of that country across the pond, particularly the politically volatile period known as the English Regency. Though she’s visited Britain several times, Bliss continues to make her home in New England along with her spouse and an ever-multiplying collection of historical reference books.
Bliss’s Regency-set historical romances have been praised as “savvy, sensual, and engrossing” by USA Today, “catnip for the Historical Romance reader” by Bookworlder, “romantic, funny, touching, and extremely well-researched” by All About Romance, and “everything you want in a great historical romance” by The Reading Wench. Her books have won the Holt Medallion; Hearts Through History’s Romance Through the Ages Award; InD’Tale Magazine Crowned Heart of Excellence Award; and have been named Must Read Romances by USA Today Happy Ever After and Desert Island Keepers by All About Romance. Her book Not Quite a Scandal was named a romance semifinalist in Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize.