WRITING & FILM
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Romancing The Story: How characterization creates memorable heroes and heroines.
In this creative Writing Course students will develop characters with internal conflicts, motivations, goals, and misbeliefs. An outline will be created as a roadmap for a rough draft for their novel, novella, or short story. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Create a novel or short story rough draft
Develop character charts
Create character goals, motivations, and conflicts,
Learn what it takes to hook a reader
How to create plot out of character
Recognize elements in a favorite romance novel that make it memorable
Students will learn to workshop with other students,
Learn free-writing and writing sprints.
Students will learn to use worksheets to develop plot and character.
Students will learn tools to evoke charter emotion.
Students will learn point of view and setting.
Cost: $150