Languages & Culture
Creative Writing: Taster: Creating Well-Rounded Characters
Course overview
What’s at the heart of any story? A well-rounded character! Discover ways to make your characters so engaging that the reader can’t put the story down. From expressing a range of emotions, contradictory behaviours, hidden desires, flaws and more. Learn how to create a character we care about, one the reader can root for. A multidimensional character is more lifelike and engaging for your reader. This workshop and course is intended for those who have some experience of writing.
Course description
This taster workshop briefly introduces you to some ways to make your characters more layered and complex. We’ll take inspiration from characters from published stories including fiction and memoir and apply some of the techniques studied with a range of writing exercises.
We’ll look at what details are included to help draw a well-rounded character beyond the description of appearance to character traits, quirks, secrets, bad habits and flaws. We’ll work on putting our character into a variety of situations to bring out a range of responses.
You’ll be invited to share some of your writing and/or reflections with other students in small break out rooms.
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