Build Character for your narrative: Lesson 10

A free-write to help you do that

Characters do things, live places and are a certain sort of person. Let’s talk HOME to understand.

What you watched: The trailer for Genius about Thomas Wolf whose book You Can’t Go Home Again was published after he died young, some days before his 38th birthday.

We’ll look at a quote from the novel and then do a free-write to help you understand character and how we writers build that in a story.

Look Homeward, Angel was his first novel

Chapter 11 follows with a super free-write experiment for you.

Note: If you want to study with me privately for a truly original and personalized creative writing course, write me at marytabor@substack.com and I’ll provide details on how I work via Zoom.

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