Writing a Non-fiction Book: Capture Real-life Experiences
Characters
A course by Duncan Barrett , Writer and Editor
About the video: Characters
Overview
“How to take real people and turn them into characters who are complex and dramatic? Focusing mainly on the subject of your story, we’ll dig a bit deeper into what makes them tick and how their own unique personality affects their interactions with others. ”
In this video lesson Duncan Barrett addresses the topic: Characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing a Non-fiction Book: Capture Real-life Experiences. Turn a true story into an engaging page-turner by exploring interview methods, writing techniques, and character development for non-fiction writing.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Characters In this lesson, we'll talk a little bit about character. Some people like to say character is action or alternatively action is character. The two are inextricably linked. The best way to get to know about our characters is seeing how they behave and treat other people, the decisions that they make. Equally, when we say that we're interested in plot, in story, that means we're interested in what happens to those people. In a way, it's helpful to see them as bound together, as interwoven rather than separate elements. That said, in this lesson, we'll focus on the character side ...”
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Course summary for: Writing a Non-fiction Book: Capture Real-life Experiences
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Communication, Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling, Writing
Duncan Barrett
A course by Duncan Barrett
Writer and Editor Duncan Barrett grew up as an avid reader and a lover of history. After studying English literature at university he went to drama school and decided to pursue a career as an actor, while working in publishing on the side. In 2009 Duncan found a WW1 memoir in the Imperial War Museum archive that he turned into a published book, The Reluctant Tommy.
The insight he gained in writing an impactful book-length story sparked a chain of events that led him to become an author of narrative non-fiction specializing in biography and memoir. His work includes the series’ The Sugar Girls and GI Brides which he wrote with his partner and which appeared in the The Sunday Times and The New York Times bestsellers’ lists. Duncan is also known for his solo titles such as Men of Letters, which was nominated for the People's Book Prize, Hitler's British Isles, and Ronnie Le Drew's showbiz memoir Unzipped. He also writes features for The Guardian.
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