Beginner’s Guide: Crafting Compelling Characters

Creating 'real' characters

Created by: Hank Quense
Author and Lecturer

What Will I Learn?

• What attributes make a character "great"
• What are the most important part of the character's physical description
• What are the most important elements in the character's biography
• Identify the most essential parts of the character's mental makeup
• Learn how the dominant readers emotion affects your character development and how you write about the character
• Learn why the character's motivation is so important
• Learn how the character arc can form a story within the story

Requirements

• A desire or need to learn how to develop fictional characters

Target audience

• This course is for fiction writing beginners who aren't sure how to develop characters for their stories