In this workshop, award-winning novelist Theodore Wheeler will discuss his approach to discovering character while working through the early drafts of a story and walk participants through a generative writing exercise. The exercise will benefit those who are looking to deepen their understanding of a character in an existing draft as well as those who are just starting out.

Theodore Wheeler is the award-winning author of four books of fiction, notably the USA Today bestseller The War Begins in Paris (Little Brown & Co., 2023) and the Amazon bestseller Kings of Broken Things (Little A, 2017), both of which won Nebraska Book Awards. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Nebraska Arts Council, and Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. For fourteen years Wheeler worked as a journalist and he now teaches creative writing in the English Department at Creighton University. Find out more at theodore-wheeler.com.

The War Begins in Paris 

USA Today Bestseller

“This book is necessary at this moment in time. And it’s an important work to hold close for those of us looking for hope to find us on the flip side of worry.” — Little Village