For this week:
Catch up with Bleak House. Many are behind, so if you're caught up, you get a break. If you're not caught up, read through chapter 36 for this Friday's discussion. This will necessitate an extra discussion time outside of our regularly scheduled classes because we'll now be behind and not finish by October 16. I would like to hold a writing marathon and final discussion on the book in the first half of November, so start looking at your calendars to see what will work for you. This will be a great chance for you to have fun getting that rough draft of your writing project going, so if we can get everyone there, that will be awesome!
From our people watching exercise, choose one person you saw and create a back story to explain the things you observed about them. For example, if they looked a little cocky as they walked, is that because they're stuck up or because they're trying to give themselves confidence when they're feeling insecure or is it just they way they look when they're in a hurry? If you missed the people watching exercise, just use someone you notice when you're out and about--maybe at the store or the library or whatever. Post this on the blog for feedback.
Read this article and use the character traits listed to begin creating the characters for your writing project. You may not need to decide on everything on the list for every character, so just use it as a starting point. http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/jun98/how-to-create-a-character-profile-6986 Remember that secondary characters need to be interesting as well as main characters, so be thinking about how to flesh them out. If your characters are well developed, your story will flow much easier. Try to make the characters live off the page--not everything about them will get included in your story, but they will feel more real if the reader can tell that there's more to the character than what is on the page. I will have you show me your three character sheets, make sure you do them!
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