Location: Chapman Coffee House "Living Room" 505 N. Glassel St. Orange, CA 92867 Click here to view map (714) 602-6983 Course Duration: Tuesday evenings for six weeks beginning June 8 to July 13, 2010 Class Size: Limited to eight writers Cost: $200 Payment Method: Online by credit/debit or Paypal
Course Syllabus
Week One: Developing Plausible Characters to Match Your Stories
Using the "MICE Quotient" to understand your characters needs
Stating your contract with the reader and what it means to your story's plausibility
Workshop five student pages each
Week Two: Developing a Good Fictional Character
Where do characters come from?
Elements of a fictional character
Invention techniques
Workshop five student pages each
Week Three: Developing a Balance Between the Realistic and Romantic character
What are realistic characters and how are they used?
What are Romantic characters and how are they used?
Creating plausible balance for an effective fictive dream
Workshop five student pages each
Week Four: Developing Sympathetic Characters that Grab Readers Emotionally
What should we feel about a character?
How to create characters we love
Raising the emotional stakes to gain reader buy in
The uses and creating of characters we love to hate
Workshop five student pages each
Week Five: Developing the Plausible Hero
The nature of a serious character
The hero as common man
What we must do to make our serious character endearing
Workshop five student pages each
Week Six: Developing Characters that Change
Characters who can't change
Characters changed by their environment
Characters changed by force of will
Justifying the work of change, both interior or exterior
Workshop five student pages each
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