Creative Writing Techniques for Short Stories
How to Create Characters Who Feel Real 1
A course by Jane Corry , Writer
Write and submit a complete short story by exploring creative writing exercises from character and plot development to proofing and editing
About the video: How to Create Characters Who Feel Real 1
Overview
“A character needs to be a living, breathing person in print. In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to do this.”
In this video lesson Jane Corry addresses the topic: How to Create Characters Who Feel Real 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Writing Techniques for Short Stories. Write and submit a complete short story by exploring creative writing exercises from character and plot development to proofing and editing.
Partial transcription of the video
“So a character needs to be a living, breathing person in print. And in this lesson, I'm going to show you how to do this. So when I think of a character, I often think of somebody visually. It might be a sort of combination of people I've passed in the street, perhaps, or on the train, or on a bus. They might be from a magazine. But if I am stuck or if I want to get more depth into a character, I might print out something like this, which has got name, age, gender, job, problem, likes and dislikes, character, whether they're honest, afraid, have ambition. I know that's part of character, bu...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing Techniques for Short Stories
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Creative Writing, Writing
A course by Jane Corry
Jane Corry started her literary journey as a trained journalist, writing for a diverse range of newspapers and magazines. Her versatile writing skills led her down the path of fiction, where she has published 19 novels to date. Jane's love for crafting short stories has seen hundreds of her narratives featured in magazines around the globe. Besides her writing prowess, she also has a passion for teaching. Jane has shared her expertise with students at prestigious institutions like Oxford University and served as a Royal Literary Fellow at Exeter University.
Seven of her novels have secured spots in the top ten of The Sunday Times. Her latest novel is called 'Coming to find you' and is published by Penguin. Her works have crossed borders, being published in more than 20 countries worldwide. Her success has equipped her with valuable insights, which she enthusiastically passes onto others. She currently lives by the sea in southwest England, and even in the coldest of weathers, she enjoys swimming all throughout the year. She gets most of her ideas while she's in the water.
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