Making Your Characters into Real Boys Meghan Thomas 1 2 Being the Blue Faerie 3 My Precious What does your character want What cant she live without Deep d esire amp immediate desire ID: 468425
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Conjuring Convincing Characters
Making Your Characters into Real Boys Meghan Thomas
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Being the Blue Faerie
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“My Precious”
What does your character
want
?
What can’t she live without?
Deep
d
esire & immediate desire
can be expressed explicitly or in the abstract.
Desire leads to action and image.
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Presenting a character to the reader
Action
Thought
Voice
Image
Telling
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Hello, my name is Nadia. I’m twenty-seven years old and no one knows I drink myself to sleep every night.Slide6
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Character Trait WebSlide7
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?
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INTERNAL TRANSFORMATION
Nadia is despondent and unhappy
Nadia encounters an old
w
oman in the alley behind
h
er office building whose
b
ody has been ravaged by
years of alcoholismNadia tries to help the old woman
Old woman steals from Nadia
Nadia decides to get soberSlide9
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I don’t want to be a
c
razy lady in an alley.
I’m checking myself
i
nto rehab and finally
c
alling my mother.Slide10
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Further Reading
Refresh, Refresh
by Benjamin Percy
http://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/5585/refresh-refresh-benjamin-percy
Hoodie in
Xanadu
by Ann Beattie
http://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6023/hoodie-in-xanadu-ann-beattie