Writing Lab: Character Building for Stories
Develop original, story-ready characters by shaping desires, fears, flaws, backstory, and choices under pressure.
Paid once.
- Level
- Beginner
- Ages
- 11–15
- Duration
- 50 min
- Classes
- 3 / Week
- Weeks
- 2
- Not satisfied after the first class? Full refund.
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Class Experience
This writing lab guides students beyond surface details to create characters with clear wants, fears, contradictions, and meaningful backstory. Through mentor-text study and writing practice, learners craft flaws and hidden motives, test choices under pressure, and produce a polished character portfolio ready for future stories.
Learning Outcomes
Build an original character with clear wants, fears, flaws, and emotional pressure points
Explain how contradiction and backstory make characters believable
Design choices and conflict situations that reveal character under pressure
Produce a polished character portfolio for future creative writing
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Meet your Instructor
With more than 25 years in education and certifications in elementary education, social science, and art, this teacher designs literature and writing courses that balance imagination with craft. Instruction uses strong mentor texts to teach scene work, dialogue, tension, characte…
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