- Level
- Intermediate
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- Basic members $40/Premium members $30
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- Category
- Characters
- POV
- $5 off Early Registration Coupon-expires 1 week before class starts
- DEEPPOVMCINTYRE
Are your characters feeling flat or too superficial? Are readers having a hard time connecting?
In Catching the Feels, we'll dive deep into character creation and how to find the spark of your characters from the beginning. We'll also go through different approaches and techniques to achieve deeper point-of-view, an integral part of immersing your readers. By the end of this course, you'll be creating complex, memorable characters, and you'll have mastered the techniques to integrate depth into passages that need an emotional injection.
In Catching the Feels, we'll dive deep into character creation and how to find the spark of your characters from the beginning. We'll also go through different approaches and techniques to achieve deeper point-of-view, an integral part of immersing your readers. By the end of this course, you'll be creating complex, memorable characters, and you'll have mastered the techniques to integrate depth into passages that need an emotional injection.
- Syllabus
- How to Achieve Emotional Depth and Deeper POV
Week One: Building those complex characters
Monday: Start them with a structure
-Myers Briggs
-Astrology Signs
-Dungeons and Dragons sheets
Wednesday: Scalpel past the surface—let’s get negative
-What sorts of things do they hate?
-What key events shaped their lives?
-What are they most afraid of?
Friday: Sweet dreams are made of this—hopes and goals
-Past goals: Achievements
-Present goals: Wants
-Future goals: Aspirations
Week Two: Sinking into deeper POV
Monday: Body language is your friend
-Eyes, mouth, etc
-Gestures
-Proxemics and posture
Wednesday: Sensory details for the win
-Five Senses
-Reaching past clichés to something personal
-Tethering sensory details to introspection
Friday: Layers of feelings
-Immediate feelings—spurred by current events,
-Current character struggles
-Past damage/incidents that shaped them
Week Three: Using plot and setting as tools
Monday: Location, location, location
-World the characters live in
-Important places for your characters
-Scene-by-scene: reflect your character’s mood
Wednesday: What’s the worst that can happen?
-What would your character’s worst day look like?
-What would be the worst thing that can happen in the current scene?
-Responses to the worst—character definition
Friday: A walk down memory lane
-Developing the character’s backstory
-Sense memories triggering current issues
-Settings that evoke memories
Week Four: Weaving everything together
Monday: Complex character checklist
-Apply the character checklist to your leads, and even side characters
Wednesday: Deep POV scene fixer
-Steps of fixing weaker paragraphs to apply on your own WIP
Friday: Final exercise and discussion
-Example and practice for complex character in a deep POV scene, plus discussion overview of the entire course.
