Friday, January 3, 2014

Writing by Psyche Workshop (press release)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 3, 2014

 

If you are a writer or interested in becoming a writer, Calvert Library Prince Frederick is offering a very special workshop for you on Thursday, January 16, at 7pm.  Solid character development is crucial to good writing.  Corrie Howe, writer and MBTI® Practitioner, will introduce a method of character creation and development that uses the Myers-Briggs personality test.  Participants will also use the Myers-Briggs to help understand their own writing technique and hurdles. 

 

Over a hundred years of research has gone into C.G. Jung’s theory that the entire population of the world can be characterized by one of sixteen different personality types. Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs developed the Myers-Briggs (also known as MBTI®), a psychological instrument to help people determine which personality type best describes them.

 

Writers can take advantage of this wealth of research behind both Jung and MBTI® to build believable characters. Each of the sixteen different types has its own way of collecting information, making decisions and relating to others and their outside world. As one local writer noted, what is fun about knowing the basic personality types, is the ability to “break the rules” and have the character do something out of – well, character.

 

Corrie Howe’s workshop will share the basic theory behind the personality types which authors can apply in two practical ways following the training.

 

First, the writer will have sixteen “skeletons” to take away from the workshop and simply give them a name, eye color and back story. A writer can tap into all the available research on MBTI® personalities to find out what kinds of clothes they are likely to wear, cars they drive, careers they pursue and even how they will react in love, in bed and under stress.

 

Next, Howe will use Anne Loomis’ book Write from the Start as a foundation to help authors narrow down their own personality type and then discover where they may stumble in the writing process. Howe will provide some appropriate tools which work better for the different personality types during four stages of the writing process.

 

You do not have to take the MBTI®  or know your personality type to benefit from the workshop.

 

For more information, call Robyn Truslow at Calvert Library Prince Frederick at 410-535-0291 or 301-855-1862.

 

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Robyn Truslow

Public Relations Coordinator

Calvert Library

850 Costley Way

Prince Frederick, MD  20678

410-535-0291

410-535-3022 Fax

rtruslow@somd.lib.md.us 

 

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