Readers love characters who have strong opinions about themselves, others, or the world. In real life you may shy away from being bold, strongly opinionated or even rude, but in fiction, these attributes create memorable characters who leap from the page and create authenticity and reader connection. A strong attitude is also key to capturing agent and editorâs eyes.
Building character at this level requires deep exploration of their history, their relationships and their deepest feelings. It requires thinking about your characterâs biggest terrors and fears, their secrets and lies. To truly know your characters, you have to know how they act under pressure, cope when things are hard and express themselves.
This live webinar will help you tap into the unique attitudes and judgments of your characters and use that to shape strong voice, powerful character agency that helps you tell a compelling story.
Drawing on material from two of Jordanâs books, The Sound of Story: Developing Voice and Tone and Writing the Intimate Character: Create Unique, Compelling Characters Through Mastery of Point of View, this live webinar will use contemporary examples to demonstrate attitude-building techniques at the character and sentence level.
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Jordan Rosenfeld
Jordan Rosenfeld is author of the novels Fallout, Women in Red and Forged in Grace and six books on the craft of writing, including the brand new Sound of Story: Developing Voice and Tone in Writing, How to Write a Page-Turner, the bestselling Make a Scene, Writing the Intimate Character, A Writerâs Guide to Persistence, Writing Deep Scenes and Write Free. Her freelance writing has been published in hundreds of publications, including: The Atlantic, The New York Times, Publisherâs Weekly, Salon, Scientific American, The Rumpus, Writerâs Digest Magazine, The Washington Post and many more. She is also a freelance manuscript editor, writing coach and teaches online classes. Jordanrosenfeld.net and https://substack.com/@jordanwritelife
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