Take a moment to think of your favourite novels – chances are they feature vivid characters that leap off the page and into your imagination. If you want to learn how to create compelling characters for your novel or short stories, come along to this morning masterclass with Louisa Young.
Known for her breathtakingly vivid characters, brimming with emotional conviction and bursting with life, Louisa is the award-winning author of eleven novels including The Heroes’ Welcome. During this informative writers’ workshop, you’ll learn how to transport characters into a fictional world, as well as how make your characters so convincing and enticing that readers will want to follow them from novel to novel.
Content
- Characterisation - an overview of the role of characters in the novel
- Finding out the background of your characters - where do they come from? What makes them tick? Are they based on anyone in particular?
- How to breathe life into your characters and transport them into a fictional world
- Advice on letting your characters grow and lead their own story (without letting them get out of hand)
- Discovering how your characters relate to one another
- What to do when your characters just sit there and do nothing
- Q&A - a great opportunity to pick the brains of a bestselling novelist
How to write series curated by Lionel Shriver
This Masterclass is part of a series of writing classes this April, specially curated by Lionel Shriver, internationally bestselling author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Click here to browse the full range of classes in this series, and book our four-course ticket offer, which includes a complimentary one-to-one feedback session on your writing from Suzie Dooré, Lionel’s editor at The Borough Press, and leading literary agent Ed Wilson.
Tutor profile
Louisa Young is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer. Her works include The Heroes’ Welcome, a follow up to the 2011 bestseller My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Wellcome Book Prize, and was the first ever winner of the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year. Her eleventh novel, Devotion, will be published in spring 2016 by The Borough Press, HarperFiction’s literary fiction imprint. She tweets @rileypurefoy.
Details
Date: Saturday 9 April 2016
Times: 10am-1pm
Location: The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU
Price: £99 (includes VAT, booking fee and drinks)
Event capacity: 36
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Returns policy
Tickets may be refunded if you contact us at least 14 days before the course start date. Please see our terms and conditions for more information on our refund policy.
