MD/DE/WV Region

Wake up your craft with our final Summer Springboard 2024 online event! Hop on zoom to meet fellow kidlit creators and get a little accountability and cheerleading for your butt-in-chair time. This event is FREE for SCBWI Premium members, but registration is required.

In this Summer Springboard for Writers workshop, you’ll discover how to bring out your main character’s hidden motivations and tips on how they should be unraveled throughout your story. We’ll discuss outside influences that can shape your plot and characters and how to draw from the environment. Then we’ll talk about adding secondary characters and how you can draw from their differences to create friction through both dialogue and nonverbal behavior. Learn how to listen to the signals already provided by your characters and plot line to help make your story jump off the page.

Illustrators: are you feeling stuck with designing characters for picture books? Have you gotten feedback that your characters are stiff or not drawn consistently? This Summer Springboard for Illustrators is a 2-part class designed to help you take your character designs from bland and stiff to charming and energetic. You’ll learn how to use the personality of your character to guide its design and give it energy, how to use shapes to explore character design and five tips on how to draw characters consistently.