Please note: the next Blackboard assignment, scheduled for Wednesday, will not be due until Friday.
Creating Characters | Using Characterization
Creating Characters | Using Characterization
- Appearance – how you physically describe them; what you emphasize about their looks
- Language – how they talk and what they talk about; accent, dialect, references they make, length of sentences …
- Behavior – define by actions, how they interact with other characters; how they treat themselves
- Internal & External Thoughts – providing a character’s rationale for actions help shape the reader’s view
Evocative, Developed Images/Action
- Sensory language – allow reader to taste, smell, hear, feel, and see the place through images that radiate those senses!
- Naming things. Be scientific; show your knowledge. (A bird? No, a cerulean warbler!) Clear images come from focused word choice)
- Show Action! Show your hero and you as the writer speaking, moving, thinking.
- Context – place and time (setting), and its impact on you, the writer
- those moments that they became people we admired and then people we no longer admired, and perhaps, the moment that person was redeemed...or similar moments
Starting to think ahead to Introductions
The First Line – Baiting Your Audience
- Hook the reader with some surprising language
- A stark image (use sensory language)
- Make an "odd" statement
- (We will have a lesson on writing introductions on Friday)
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