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Crafting Dynamic Characters (Writing Mastery) by Udemy
Write and develop unforgettable characters for your novels and short stories!
Course Highlights
- What makes readers fall in love with characters
- How to breathe life into flat characters
- 7 tools for effectively revealing your characters to the reader
- The 4 Foundations that make up all Dynamic Characters
- The importance of accessing a character's "interiority" and how to use it to elevate your fiction writing
- How to brainstorm and develop Dynamic Characters from the ground up
- How to develop your character's "voice"
- How to build and nurture the essential "reader/character" connection
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
4 Topics
Welcome and What to Expect
Why is Character So Important?
How this Course Works
Where to Get Help
3 Topics
The Most Important Question Readers Ask
Character Quick Start - The Game of "And? So"
Instructor Jam - The Game of And So
23 Topics
A New Spin on Show vs. Tell
Point of View
Tool #1 - Revealing Character Through Thought
Exercise - Penny for Your Thoughts
Instructor Jam - Penny for Your Thoughts
Tool #2 - Revealing Character through Reaction
Exercise - Reaction Shot!
Instructor Jam - Reaction Shot
Tool #3 - Revealing Character through Dialogue
Exercise - What's Really Being Said
Instructor Jam - What's Really Being Said
Tool #4 - Revealing Character through Voice
Exercise - Voice Extremes
Instructor Jam - Voice Extremes
Tool #5 - Revealing Character through Emotion
Exercise - Emotional Taboo
Instructor Jam - Emotional Taboo
Tool #6 - Revealing Character through Inner Struggle
Exercise - Easily Triggered
Instructor Jam - Easily Triggered
Tool #7 - Revealing Character through Other Characters
Exercise - What Can You Do For Me?
Instructor Jam - What Can You Do For Me?
17 Topics
The Four Foundations of a Dynamic Character
Exercise - Meet Your Protagonist
Instructor Jam - Meet Your Protagonist
Foundation #1 - Wounds
Exercise - Wounds
Instructor Jam - Wounds
Foundation #2 - Needs
Exercise - Needs
Instructor Jam - Needs
Foundation #3 - Objectives
Exercise - Objectives
Instructor Jam - Objectives
Foundation #4 - Motivations
Exercise - Motivations
Instructor Jam - Motivations
Secondary Characters and Antagonists
Growth and Change
3 Topics
Next Steps
A Work in Progress
BONUS LECTURE
Crafting Dynamic Characters (Writing Mastery)
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