Hi Carol, I want to apologize for not keeping up with your assignments. I never realized how much work goes into creating a character. These materials are wonderful, but between teaching and family I

Hi Everyone, I hope that you have been enjoying Carol’s course and really gotten to delve deeply into your characters. I want to thank Carol for offering this workshop for STAR. And I want to thank al

IT’S ALL ABOUT CHARACTER—Beyond the Basics© Lesson 7 By Carol Henry LESSON 7: Character’s story goal,’ and last minute considerations In this lesson we’re going to delve into what your character wants

IT’S ALL ABOUT CHARACTER—Beyond the Basics© Lesson 6 By Carol Henry LESSON 6: Character’s Career. In this lesson we’re going to delve into your character’s current employment/career. It might not seem

IT’S ALL ABOUT CHARACTER—Beyond the Basics© Lesson 5 By Carol Henry LESSON 5: Character’s background—education and personal/private life. In this lesson we’re going to delve into your character’s teen

Jamie, again a lot of good ‘stuff’ to build your story around. Abigail Faith Lucas Madison, it is! If the name works for both you and Abigail, it’s a winner. Digging deeper we find a bit more about wh

Jamie, a lot of thought went into your character’s personality. It will give you a lot to work with as she interacts, and reacts with the other characters in your story. I love your description “Abiga

Name: Her full name is Abigail Faith Lucas Madison; her parents were Nathaniel and Grace Lucas; Grace named her after her very good friend. In her late teens, she married Dr. Madison. I specifically c

Abigail Madison Speech: Abigail’s speech is refined and controlled most of the time (befitting a daughter of a university professor), but not always; when she is flustered, the first thing in her head

I have a busy scheduled tomorrow, so am sending you Lesson 4 early. If you have any questions on either Lesson 3 or 4, let me know. Carol Carol Henry Destination: Romance—Exotic Romantic Suspense Adve

Hi, Kathy, Wow, this tells me a lot about Jake, as well as leading up to some of his internal/external emotions, and possible conflicts, and his goals, one of which is to make it to his 20 years so he

In this lesson we’re going to identify a few more character visual traits that will define and add more depth to your character’s outward appearance. But before we do that, we need to define your char

Hi, Kathy, for purposes of this class I’ll be helping you with Jake Weston’s Character—the Hero. It’s great you’ve already got your other characters assigned a role in relation to Jake. So, we need to

IT’S ALL ABOUT CHARACTER—Beyond the Basics© Lesson Three By Carol Henry First a reminder: After reading through everyone’s Lesson Two, I was amazed at what several of you came up with, however, there

Hi, Kathy, It’s good to see that not only do you have a basic description of your character, Jake Weston, but you already know he’s a Navy SEAL, and have pictured him as Viggo Mortensen. We’ll talk mo

Hi, Maybe I went overboard ..... Villainess: Tula Whitacre-Barnes Background: She is a wealthy Boston socialite with a Mayflower pedigree, well-educated college MBA graduate, an only child, and unmarr

Hi, Jamie, Good for your New Years’ resolution, and pulling out some of your fiction to work on. Hopefully we can get your characters motivated to get their story published. Lesson One—I already love

Hi, Carolan, Thank you for your introduction. I wouldn’t worry about whether or not your YA topic will be ‘a popular book’, you simply have to write the book YOU want to write. The rest will take care

Hi, Francesca, Thanks for letting us know you are working on a paranormal romance. It gives us a bit more information when working up a character. I love the name Tula for this novel. Can only imagine

IT’S ALL ABOUT CHARACTER—Beyond the Basics© By Carol Henry LESSON 2: Visualizing characters beyond the basics In this lesson we’re going to identify a few more character visual traits that will define