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- Mixed
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Register before October 9th with the coupon CHARACTERSOWENS2023 for a $5 discount
- Category
- Characters
- GMC
- $5 off Early Registration Coupon-expires 1 week before class starts
- CHARACTERSOWENS2023
- Class Length
- 4 Weeks
Take Your Characters From Flat to Fabulous: Creating Characters Your Readers Will Love will examine how to take a character from a flat, formless idea to a living, breathing, three-dimensional person that readers can root for, care about, and fall in love with.
We will cover:
· The basics—vital statistics, names, age, voice, and the character interview.
· The Place They Call Home—the space and how to define what it means to the character,
· This is the Moment - Backstory—Using the 5 Ws—Who, What, Where, When and Why—of an incident or incidents that most significantly affected the character.
· Who’s Talking Now? Dialogue—how dialogue and dialect can define a character.
· Body Language—how your character’s body can show what he’s feeling, and what he might want to hide.
· But Why Do They Do It?—how idiosyncrasies and odd habits shape your characters.
· Clothes Make the Man—or Woman!—How a person’s dress reveals who they are.
· Action and Reaction—How a character’s actions and others’ reactions to them reveal character.
· What Matters Most?—How the things your characters care about the most can shape them.
· The Supporting Cast – Secondary Characters
Included in the class is a workbook with worksheets, resources, assignments and more.
We will cover:
· The basics—vital statistics, names, age, voice, and the character interview.
· The Place They Call Home—the space and how to define what it means to the character,
· This is the Moment - Backstory—Using the 5 Ws—Who, What, Where, When and Why—of an incident or incidents that most significantly affected the character.
· Who’s Talking Now? Dialogue—how dialogue and dialect can define a character.
· Body Language—how your character’s body can show what he’s feeling, and what he might want to hide.
· But Why Do They Do It?—how idiosyncrasies and odd habits shape your characters.
· Clothes Make the Man—or Woman!—How a person’s dress reveals who they are.
· Action and Reaction—How a character’s actions and others’ reactions to them reveal character.
· What Matters Most?—How the things your characters care about the most can shape them.
· The Supporting Cast – Secondary Characters
Included in the class is a workbook with worksheets, resources, assignments and more.
- Class Format
- Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.
The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.
