Workshop on Characters
Yesterday I went to a one-day Hugo House workshop with Karen Joy Fowler. The focus of the workshop was how to create characters and convey those characters in your writing. Karen was wonderful — very friendly and also a good teacher. A few tidbits:
When you have to come up with a character, use a character from a children’s book as a starting point. Characters in children’s books are distilled down and simplified.
Another good source of inspiration for characters is bits of conversation you hear. Often you get only a small piece of the conversation, but it can be …
