Creative Writing Foundations: Develop Compelling Characters
Research Tips and Best Practices
A course by Mark Boutros , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Research Tips and Best Practices
Overview
“Research is essential to any project. It helps to broaden our views and opens our minds to information we don’t have. The key is to use research to enhance rather than to limit. In this lesson I’ll give you research tips to help you to enhance your work. ”
In this video lesson Mark Boutros addresses the topic: Research Tips and Best Practices, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Writing Foundations: Develop Compelling Characters. Learn how to imagine and bring to life memorable characters with their own unique stories to tell.
Partial transcription of the video
“Research Tips and Best Practices Now, let's talk a little bit about research. A lot of people think research is almost a bad word as it gets in the way of creativity, but it does not. Research is important because it broadens our horizons. It stops us from putting our own biased views into things and as writers, if we're not always learning, then we're not expanding as writers, everything we're doing is a little bit narrow. It allows you to enrich the worlds you'll talk about and find more unique information so you don't lean into the obvious. We've all been exposed to the same, very simila...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing Foundations: Develop Compelling Characters
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Character Design, Creative Writing, Creativity, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Mark Boutros
A course by Mark Boutros
Mark Boutros is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and author based in London. Having grown up in a family of artists, he’s always been creative and was encouraged by his English teacher at school to pursue writing. He began his career working in television production, but his love of writing inspired him to study a master’s in creative writing at UEA. After graduating, he spent time sending out scripts, one of which was a comedy-drama that won him silver in the PAGE Awards.
Since then, Mark has won several more awards, received an International Emmy nomination, and written for some of the biggest channels in the UK, including The BBC and SkyOne. He is also the author of The Craft of Character as well as a fantasy novel series, and he hosts lectures on creative writing at universities and drama schools.
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