Aims and objectives:
To understand the ingredients/characteristics of narrative devices:
Story: Character, Plot structure and Setting.
The importance of character and characters’s NEED
Character’s NEED = action = plot
The Hero’s Journey: what is it and how does it work
What make a good character?
How does this affect the style of writing and choice of narrative?
Character questions to ask yourself and character
Setting: place you love and hate
Setting questions
Show and don’t tell.
To: Demonstrate an understanding of how to build a character and how this effects the style of writing. Write in any form exploring a character, setting and plot: short story, script for film or theatre or radio, beginning of novel, poem or journalistic (non-fiction) article.
PowerPoint’s and other documents from this weeks session:
Character questions. word 97[1]
Character description fiction and nonfiction
Click to access character-descritions-dickens-hornby-dewar.pdf
Tips for Writing Compelling Profiles
Need vs Want _The Lie Your Character Believes is the reason for all character arcs
Showing and telling techniques and extracts
Setting
Free write warm up
Think about a place that you love to go. What does it mean to you? Why do you love it? What do you do there? How does it make you feel? Start free writing about it non-stop for five minutes and then share ideas
Think of a place you do not like to go to, perhaps somewhere you feel frightened or uneasy. Why don’t you like to be there? How do you feel when you are there? What is it about that place that makes you feel this way? Again, write non-stop for five minutes.
Click below to see questions/prompts to help you with creating a setting
TO DO:
Look at the rules of show and not tell
Further research into building characters and setting
Evaluate the skills and ideas we have explore and tell me why we learnt them: what, how, why.
What impact has this had on your writing. did it help and it what way did it help.
Creative Writing & Journalism 