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Conjuring Convincing Characters

Conjuring Convincing Characters. Making Your Characters into Real Boys Meghan Thomas. Being the Blue Faerie. “My Precious”. What does your character want ? What can’t she live without?

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Conjuring Convincing Characters

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  1. Conjuring Convincing Characters Making Your Characters into Real Boys Meghan Thomas

  2. Being the Blue Faerie

  3. “My Precious” What does your character want? What can’t she live without? Deep desire & immediate desirecan be expressed explicitly or in the abstract.Desire leads to action and image.

  4. Presenting a character to the reader Action Thought Voice Image Telling Hello, my name is Nadia. I’m twenty-seven years old and no one knows I drink myself to sleep every night.

  5. Character Trait Web

  6. Garbage WHAT WE THROW AWAY CAN REVEAL WHO WE ARE Peach pits? Magazines? Cigarette Butts? Bottles? Tissues? MAIL? BILLS? LETTERS? What is in YOUR character’s garbage?

  7. INTERNAL TRANSFORMATION Nadia is despondent and unhappy Nadia encounters an old woman in the alley behind her office building whose body has been ravaged by years of alcoholism Nadia tries to help the old woman Old woman steals from Nadia Nadia decides to get sober

  8. I don’t want to be a crazy lady in an alley. I’m checking myself into rehab and finally calling my mother.

  9. Further Reading Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percyhttp://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/5585/refresh-refresh-benjamin-percy Hoodie in Xanaduby Ann Beattiehttp://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6023/hoodie-in-xanadu-ann-beattie

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