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Use Irony To Enhance Your Characters
Do you find irony an intimidating concept, one that is better left to the realms of literary writers?
We look at irony beyond the literary theory in this session – and show how you can confidently use irony as a tool to enhance your skills as a writer, no matter what genre you’re writing in.
Join Anthony Ehlers and explore how to use irony to create stronger plots and more compelling characters in your short story or novel.
What we’ll cover:
*We’ll look at examples from literary and commercial novels to show the power of irony in action.
*We’ll look at different types of irony you can use in a story.
*We’ll look at practical ways to use irony to create unexpected plot twists, enrich character development in your own stories.
*We’ll have some fun writing exercises.
A deadline is the fastest way to fill a blank page
and in this class I am going to tell you about 52 of them.
About Us
Deadlines are the solution.
In a perfect world, no writer would ever get stuck, be stumped or get sucked into the black hole that is the internet. We would sit down, the muse would descend and we’d produce literary magic, but this world is far from perfect. We get stuck, stumped and sucked in by hyperlinks. We need deadlines.
Deadlines for Writers is the kindest, most productive writing community on the internet. We kick procrastination butt by meeting daily, weekly and monthly deadlines.
Deadlines for Writers
Deadlines for Writers is the home to several writing challenges. We host the 12 Short Stories in 12 Months, 12 Poems in 12 Months and 52 Scenes in 52 Weeks novel-writing challenge.
We write together, critique each other's work and constantly improve our craft.
Write your book in a year
If you have always dreamed of writing a novel or if you have several incomplete manuscripts languishing in your drawer or if you need some extra help and accountability, well, this challenge is just for you.
Weekly deadlines, flexible prompts and a supportive community will make the challenge of writing a novel not only possible but fun.
Mia Botha
Founder
Mia has been a creative writing coach for more than 13 years. She created the Deadlines for Writers, which as the name implies, is a deadline-driven, online critique group that helps writers beat procrastination and perfectionism and overcome self-doubt because she has learnt that a deadline is the fastest way to fill a blank page.