Creative Writing Novel Workshop - Success with Characters
What you'll learn
- Know what separates an ordinary protagonist from a hero.
- Know why so many characters fail to catch reader interest.
- Be able to create characters that the reader will WANT to win, and can cheer on to the end of the book and beyond.
- Know why so many characters seem uninteresting.
- Be able to create engaging characters that will have the reader on the edge of his seat.
- Know why readers usually aren't invested in characters (meaning if one fails, the other does as well).
- Learn how to create characters that transcend the novel and actually mean something to the reader, creating high reader investment.
Requirements
- A desire to learn about character creation and development in fiction writing.
- An interest and passion for fiction, and writing fiction.
- No materials or software needed! You do not need to be an experienced writer to take this course, or even a writer at all. All you need is an interest in writing and a willingness to learn!
Description
Never write a weak character again! Using short, easy to digest lectures, this course will go over:
- The common misconceptions of character development, and why they are wrong.
- The differences between a normal protagonist and an actual hero.
- What your characters need to grab reader interest, hold it, and actually mean something to him.
- Clear steps to develop your own characters.
If you're a new writer just getting into characters, or an experienced author looking for a better understanding of what makes a character work, this course is for you. After this course, you will never again wonder why your characters turned out the way they did, and better still, you'll be able to fix them.
Take this course, and with it take control of your character development, and gain a clear understanding of the inner workings of all characters.
Who this course is for:
- Writers interested in fiction and novels. This course is NOT for nonfiction writers.
- Writers struggling with creating/developing characters.
- Writers who find that their characters are not engaging readers, and don't know why.
- Writers who want a deep and clear understanding of what character development is, and what makes a powerful character work.
Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 76 Reviews
- 55,419 Students
- 2 Courses
I’ve always been interested in design. It started as a desire to draw pictures, figure out how artists made things look so life-like, and do the same myself. It morphed into Photoshop and digital design. It expanded to the internet, web-design, and the learning of some html.
Additionally, I’ve always wanted to write novels. The desire has just always been there. I remember sitting down at the keyboard when I was five or so and starting to write. Not that such endeavors ever lasted. I would get bored or lose interest. Something was missing.
And then, about seven years ago, these two desires collided. I took a new approach to writing. I studied all I could about it, through books on writing, novels that had been successful, and my own trial-and-error. I joined a writing community and put their constructive criticism to use. I made my own writing contest, designed to help myself and others hone our writing skills. I wrote some small works of my own, slowly increasing my skill with the pen (er, I mean keyboard).
True to my interest in design, I built a process, a checklist if you will, designed to create a novel the way I thought it should be. I put everything together from everything I’d learned or read, and came up with a process that worked. I tried it out on my own writings. I revised it many times. I perfected and simplified it until it was a process anyone could follow, a process that would not just allow them to create a novel, but create a novel that would succeed, and stand out from the average authors. I don’t want to be an average author, and I doubt anyone else does, either. I want to be a successful author. I want to reach as many people as I can. And for that, my novels needed that something extra that I had always been missing.
Learn my process, see why I call it Matrix Writing, and you’ll find out what your novels have been missing too. Don’t be an ordinary author. Be extraordinary!