Compelling Characters
Creating Compelling Characters that are larger than life. They risk more, laugh often and love with passion. In this class you’ll learn how to invent both likable and loathsome characters, winners and losers, heroes and villains.
You’ll learn to build motivation, flaws, and feelings into your characters. You’ll see how conflict, crisis and consequences shape your characters. We’ll discuss Creative Trust and how to avoid creative bust and rust. You’ll see the structure of the well-formed character: Predisposition, Past, Personal demons, Present environment. We’ll cover the 20 Questions you should ask your character and how characters who C.A.R.E. touch the heart of readers.
We’ll show you how to find the Right Character for your story, how to Motivate your Lead, why Skeletons are key to fleshing out your hero, how the off-beat, odd and out-of-step provide comic relief, plus much more.