The Creating Characters Course is awesome. I have stepped up my game with some ideas I had never thought about. This is great for beginner and even the experienced writer that wants to improve their character creation.
Now novel has changed the way I write, it has taught me to look deeper into my story in ways I would have never done before.
My favorite part is the character break downs. The quotes are also amazing and keep me inspired.
Learn why characterization is important and do initial exercises to explore core character creation concepts.
Learn about the relationship between plot and characterization and how to make each serve the other.
Learn multiple strategies for developing story characters until your story's cast comes to life.
Learn how to use backstory (characters' written/implied or private pasts) to give characters depth and motivations.
An online novel writing course that's tailor-made to get you to actually write that book you've been thinking about.
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In “Peopling your story”: Why characterization is so important we introduce core characterization terms and concepts.
In Plot vs. Character: What comes first?, you'll learn the ways conflict, genre and other elements of writing affect the relationship between writing characters and plot points or story events.
In Getting to know Joe: Forming a relationship with your characters, you'll learn strategies to develop characters (includes a character profile worksheet you can use together with the ‘Characters’ outlining tool in the Now Novel dashboard).
In Bringing the Skeletons out of the closet: Dealing with backstory, you'll learn to balance backstory with present story events and give characters compelling histories.