Creating Mysterious Characters In Your Fiction

In this craft panel we'll discuss the art of creating characters whose motivations resist easy explanation.

In this craft panel, Jayson Greene and Paula Bomer will discuss the art of creating characters whose motivations resist easy explanation. Why did they do that? Perhaps the characters themselves don't even know. Spending time with these fictional people can provide us with our deepest reading experiences, or they can make us throw the book on the floor. How do you inspire the kind of ambiguity that bewitches readers? Using examples from their own work as well as writers who inspire them, Bomer and Greene will discuss the delicate art of keeping readers at arms' length without pushing them away.