Writing and Publishing Your First Fiction Novel
Building a Character
A course by João Tordo , Author
About the video: Building a Character
Overview
“The term "character" can be elusive at times, as it encompasses many meanings. Here, you will learn about characters and how they're related to the plot, voice, and scene. ”
In this video lesson João Tordo addresses the topic: Building a Character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing and Publishing Your First Fiction Novel. Develop an original idea into a compelling manuscript that’s ready to share with publishers by exploring story structure, characters, perspective, and editing.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Building a Character In this lesson, we'll talk about building a character. Character is one of the most elusive things in fiction. No one knows exactly what a character is, and we talk about it all the time. "This novel has great characters. These characters are amazing. The characters are this and that." Character is a word that serves a lot of purposes but no one knows exactly what it's saying when they talk about characters. Are we talking about the physical person, a psychology, ways of acting, etc.? Maybe we're talking about all these things but in what concerns the writer, we're ta...”
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Course summary for: Writing and Publishing Your First Fiction Novel
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Areas
Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
João Tordo
A course by João Tordo
João Tordo is an award-winning author based in Lisbon, Portugal. As a child, he was obsessed with books and knew from an early age he wanted to be a storyteller. He went on to study writing in New York and published his first book, The Book of Lightless Men in 2004.
He’s since published 18 books and won multiple awards including the José Saramago Literary Prize, the Fernando Namora Prize, and the GQ Prize. His books are published around the world in countries like France, Hungary, Spain, Brazi, and Mexico. He has also worked on shows for Netflix, including Until Life Do Us Part.
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