Writing Exercise 3: This Could Get Dangerous
Posted by Essay Help on November 6, 2009Defining your fictional characters’ voices is important. What is equally animated, tho’, is grasping your characters’ humanity, the core of their fictional feeling.
A good artifact to learn how to do this is by observing an incident finished another living person’s eyes.
For this exercise, choose your mate, a relative, or your best friend to play the fictional character in a 500-word dramatic environment. Compose exploitation either 3rd person or first person point of analyze.
Wounding situations force people to reveal their accurate consciousness. In other words, actions communicate louder than words.
How would your chosen person react in a wounding situation, a blind date, for example, or a wildfire?
Don’t be blinded by your feelings for the person. You love your mate, but how would he or she truthfully react if faced with a wildfire?
Consider objectively what you know about the person, and so what you meaning.
We react instinctively toward other people, tho’ we often pay no attention to the quiet expression in the back of our minds. Listen to what your quiet expression tells you about the hidden humanity of your chosen person, and so interweave the information into your fictional character.
The humanity you need to bring your character to life is hidden behind the friendly grin you accompany every day.
You might deprivation to keep this exercise away from the eyes of your chosen person. He or she might not appreciate being made into a fictional character.
Do not consume your chosen person’s name for your character! Your life may be on the line.
Grasp your character’s humanity and you will give your character a feeling your readers can believe in.
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