50 Rude Questions to Get to Know Your Characters with Peter Andrews

Character 50 Rude Questions to Get to Know Your Characters with Peter Andrews

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  1. Characters
  2. POV
  3. Voice
  4. Worldbuilding
  5. Writer's Life
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RUDEQUESTIONSANDREWS2021
Which would you choose? A picture of your protagonist? Or her story about burying her dog in the neighbor’s yard at midnight? Which would tell you more about her?

Probably the latter. Deep secrets. Painful memories. Private joys. Embarrassments. Regrets. Anonymous works of charity. These can reveal characters more than their resumes, driver’s licenses, or physical descriptions. It’s great to have all of the above, but a story, free of cliche, emerges most easily from the answers to interviews. Even if the characters lie.

This course is designed to help you learn what is deep, unexpected, and critical to how characters see themselves and how they fit in. And once you know those characters inside and out, their distinct and specific choices will be authentic and compelling. Your characters will have a greater chance of coming alive and telling you their stories.
  • Lesson 1 How to interview your characters
  • Lesson 2 The questions that tell you the most
  • Lesson 3 If you can catch your characters lying, you win
  • Lesson 4 Interviews under different situations - Drunkenness, bribery, trickery and torture
  • Lesson 5 Putting the answers to use
  • Lesson 6 Magnifying flaws - It’s not the character, it’s you
  • Lesson 7 Getting better answers from the antagonists
  • Lesson 8 Making characters you know work together or betray each other
  • Lesson 9 Summary and application to your story
Author
Peter Andrews
Start date
Feb 15, 2021 at 9:00 AM
End date
Mar 14, 2021 at 12:00 AM
Registration end date
Feb 17, 2021 at 12:00 AM
Rating
5.00 star(s) 16 ratings

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Great class with very informative instructor! I never knew how much goes into a proper interview with a character. The class was very insightful.