Workshop:

BRINGING YOUR CHARACTERS TO LIFE

How do you create fictional characters that seems so real that readers experience them as larger than life?  Readers will know your characters through the word pictures you paint; through the words and actions you give your characters; through the qualities you give them.  Each week we'll do lots of practice exercises in this workshop, to give you plenty of chances to practice and get it right.   Here's what this course will cover:

Week 1:  Twelve things you ought to know about your characters

Week 2:  Creating Characters.  Make readers care by giving characteristics readers can identify with and admire.

Week 3:  Believable Action.  Putting your characters into motion in ways readers will believe

Week 4:  Believable Dialogue: Putting words in characters' mouths that sound like real talk.

Week 5:  Revealing Character: Show, don't tell.

Week 6: The Qualities of an Interesting Character: the characteristics that make readers believe in your characters and
               care about them.

Student Comments"

 "OK, I was in love with my characters but my writing teacher said they were ho-hum, even cardboard-y.  I took this course and found out why.  I still love my characters, and now my readers are getting into them too."

"This class has rescued me from wooden characters! Now they seem like real people and editors love them!"

"Who Knew?  Thanks to the homework from this class, now I know my characters,  who live, act and sound like the real thing!"

6-week classes begin the first Friday of each month - or take it as a One-on-One and begin immediately upon registration           

take One-on-One:
                    1) begin any time,
                    2) work one-on-one with your instructor, and
                    3) take up to 12 weeks to complete.

Fee: $ 120.00