507 Writing Strong Women: Building Complex, Unforgettable Female Characters (ENGLISH)

What makes a female character feel real, powerful, and impossible to forget? In this 90-minute fiction workshop, bestselling author Jo Piazza explores how to craft women on the page who are as messy, ambitious, contradictory, and compelling as they are in real life.Moving beyond clichés and one-dimensional “strong female leads,” this session focuses on building fully realized characters with agency, desire, and flaws that drive a narrative. We’ll examine how cultural expectations shape female characters, how to write ambition, power, and vulnerability without falling into tropes, and how to create relationships between women that feel authentic and dynamic.

Instructor

Jo Piazza