How To Write Great Characters: Fiction, Scripts, Life-Story

Alan Hancock will show you how to create characters on the page whether for a novel, short fiction, or life-story. You'll learn from writing exercises to open up your creativity and imagination, and from the work of successful authors. We'll consider how much physical detail is needed, and when it's too much; how to weave in a character's backstory; and whether central characters need to be likeable. What makes some characters memorable for so many people: Harry Potter, Matilda, and Jane Eyre? Where do writers look for inspiration: people they have met, characters from classic myths and stories, historical figures, portraits, themselves, or pure imagination? Character and theme are the beating heart of your story – learn how to get them on the page. The course will be interactive, lively, and fun.

Every Tue 8-29 Oct | 9.30-11.30am | $60

About your facilitator - Alan Hancock

Dr Alan Hancock is an educator, writer, editor, performer and theatre director. His scripts have been produced by the BBC and ABC, while my short fiction and articles have won awards and are published in a range of magazines and journals. For the last 15 years he has run training programs in professional communication skills, and edited the content of websites for organisations that include departments of the WA Government. He runs courses, workshops and masterclasses in professional writing, grammar and punctuation, presentation skills, and innovation at work.