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Business 135: Proper Intertwining of Plot and Character

• Average Time Commitment per Week: 3-4 hours
  
  
• Time to Complete Course: 4 Weeks
  
  
• Difficulty (1-5): 4
  
  
• Course Description: How can you ensure your reader will care about your characters? Are your characters three dimensional or are they flat and lifeless? Will your main character be the next Huck Finn or Sherlock Holmes, or will they be easily forgotten and discarded? Do you want your main characters to be memorable?
  
  How can you develop and reveal your character to the reader and further the plot? What ways can your character show more of themselves and change the direction of the plot? Are you properly developing and using your secondary characters? There are some very ingenious ways to use secondary characters to solve plot problems.
  
  Each writer has to choose which point of view to use. What difference will the point of view make to the story? And, how do we incorporate the plot, the character and the writer for the most effective outcome?
  
  This is the third in a series of courses to help each of us develop more dynamic characters. Take one or take all three, the choice is yours.
  
  Please note: This course can be taken using only the course outline. The book is a wonderful resource, but it is not necessary to complete the course. References to the book are listed within the outline for people who have the book.
  
  
• Required Resources (texts, etc.): Dynamic Characters by Nancy Kress
  
  • Lesson 1: Intertwining Character and Plot
  • Lesson 2: Secondary Characters Provide Depth
  • Lesson 3: Point of View Can Further Plot
  • Lesson 4: Connecting Character and Plot
    
    
  • Receive lessons by email (Just send us a blank message.)

• Classroom A
• Classroom B

Course developed by: Nikki Leigh

Facilitated by:  Nikki Leigh and Peer Group