Jen Devon is a white woman with brown hair, tied up towards the top of her head. She wears glasses as wide as her face, and a white blouse with blue flowers.

DATE & TIME: September 14th 2024

12:00 pm, Networking
12:15 pm, Introductions & Incentives
around 12:30-12:45 pm, Business meeting (we are not sure how long Intro & Incentives will take)
1:30 pm, Speaker

LOCATION | Zoom and Community Room at Vandalia Branch of the Dayton Metropolitan Library.

Dayton Metropolitan Library, Vandalia Branch
Location Address: 330 South Dixie Drive.
Room: Community Room

SPEAKER | Jen Devon, via Zoom
TOPIC | Voice in Dual POV Romance

Voice in Dual POV Romance

This session

In this workshop, Jen will talk about the ways she:

Enhances characterization via POV techniques
Differentiates character voice and internal monologue between multiple narrators / main characters
Tailors the narrative to a particular POV
Determines which character’s POV a chapter should be
Deepens POV

Get ready for a program that feels more like a casual conversation. Jen will talk about her own strategies and techniques. No dry lecture, no mandate from on high “this is how you do it”. She’ll settle in, talking about things that work for her, while encouraging us to be mindful of our own writing identity, so that we can adapt it to our own vibe, needs, and aptitudes.

Attending Our Hybrid Meeting

This program is free for members and prospective members who have not yet visited for two complimentary meetings. For those members who cannot join us in person, join us via Zoom. The password will be posted in the Central Ohio Fiction Writers Google Group, and on the members-only Central Ohio Fiction Writers Facebook page.

If you are not a COFW member and wish to attend this presentation via Zoom, email cofwpresident@gmail.com. Please note, the link spans from the moment we open the room to the social and introductions through the business meeting and this program.

Dayton Public Library System allows food and drinks.

About Our Speaker

I’m Jen. I’m a former ecology academic turned professional photographer turned software support pro moonlighting as an author. I’m a lifelong lover of scary movies and romance novels, both of which I was probably first exposed to far too young. But the pre-teen heart wants what it wants, and my angsty little Xennial heart wanted terror and lusty pining. I think Ripley and Hicks should have kissed, Ben Solo deserved better, and Disney should’ve given Elsa a girlfriend.

I love: campfires, Hot Tamales, sour cream as a French fry condiment, the smell of used bookstores, World of Warcraft, single-origin coffee, my 85mm f/1.8G camera lens, public radio, Hefeweizen, slipper socks, boardgames, marching bands, hiking, traveling with my family, fun hats, and people who don’t take themselves too seriously.

I’m married to a hot nerd who I met on the Internet, and now twenty years later we’re raising three bright, feminist, kick-ass kids. We also have two ill-mannered rescue mutts – I’d have a whole pack of them (dogs, not kids) if I could, but there’s only so much room on the bed, you know?

I’m an adult-diagnosed ADHD’er, an outgoing introvert and occasional foulmouth (apologies to my mom, my dad, my kids’ teachers, and the hosts of any panels or podcasts I’m a guest on), a Gandalf stan, thrift store enthusiast, nonsense repudiator, kindness evangelist, and unapologetic dirt-lover. I think the world would be a better place if everyone read romance novels.

Learn more about Jen at her website.