Sunday Breakout Workshop: 5 Key Relationships Your Main Character Must Have

Sunday, August 23, 2026 • 10:00-10:45am Must be registered for the conference to attend breakout workshops. Enhance your story by strengthening the relationships that drive it. In this interactive workshop, you’ll identify gaps, missed opportunities, and areas for growth in your work-in-progress through guided exercises and optional partner work. You’ll leave with new material you can immediately apply to your manuscript, plus handouts to help you stay focused instead of scrambling to take notes. This session led by Christine Fairchild examines how your main characters connect with five key elements: plot, world, key objects or tools, other characters, and most importantly, themselves. You’ll learn how to assign each character a unique role in the story, foster meaningful interactions with setting and story elements, and develop dynamic relationships that grow over time.