Creating Great Charaters
Zoom Writing Workshop with Tony Kirwood
Creating Great Characters
Four-session online workshop, 1 - 1.5 hours per session, live teaching, via Zoom.
The length of the sessions varies depending on the session topic and the questions and discussions that arise.
Sessions will be a minimum of one hour.
Only ten places available on this workshop.
Starting Thursday 28th April 2022 at 7pm for four weeks ending 19th May 2022
Times shown: British Summer Time
If you are interested in future dates for this workshop please email: [email protected]
Workshop fee: £99.99
(meeting invite will be sent out a couple of days prior to the workshop)
Only ten places available on this workshop.
Starting Thursday 28th April 2022 at 7pm for four weeks ending 19th May 2022
Times shown: British Summer Time
If you are interested in future dates for this workshop please email: [email protected]
Workshop fee: £99.99
(meeting invite will be sent out a couple of days prior to the workshop)
Workshop Outline
Week 1: Your Character’s Motivations In this session you’ll look at how plot, conflict and character are all interrelated. You will think about the challenges you are to present to your characters and how they will react.
Week 2: Interiority This week you’ll be looking at how to give your character depth by creating a great back story and what inner conflicts they could have. You’ll then think about which point of view to use.
Week 3: Exteriors What your character looks and sounds like is explored in this session. Then you learn how to make your readers sympathetic to your character.
Week 4: The Wider Story In your final session you’ll look beyond your main character to your secondary characters. You’ll learn the dos and don’ts of changing your point of view and how to reveal character through description, action, thought and voice.
This workshop is run by Budding Writers in partnership with The Writers Bureau.
Week 2: Interiority This week you’ll be looking at how to give your character depth by creating a great back story and what inner conflicts they could have. You’ll then think about which point of view to use.
Week 3: Exteriors What your character looks and sounds like is explored in this session. Then you learn how to make your readers sympathetic to your character.
Week 4: The Wider Story In your final session you’ll look beyond your main character to your secondary characters. You’ll learn the dos and don’ts of changing your point of view and how to reveal character through description, action, thought and voice.
This workshop is run by Budding Writers in partnership with The Writers Bureau.
Workshop Leader
Tony Kirwood
Tony writes fiction, articles and comedy sketches. Much of his work is humorous although sometimes it's scary. Sometimes it's both. His non-scary book How To Write Comedy was cited by the Stage Newspaper as the best training book of the year. He’s had stories in the fantasy genre published and read out. His column The Blog of Samuel Pepys appeared regularly in The Greenwich Visitor paper.
Tony teaches creative writing, comedy writing, comedy appreciation and drama in colleges and venues across the country. He tutors regular classes at Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College in South London. He has also led workshops at literary festivals and similar events.
Tony teaches creative writing, comedy writing, comedy appreciation and drama in colleges and venues across the country. He tutors regular classes at Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College in South London. He has also led workshops at literary festivals and similar events.
By taking part in this workshop you will:
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meet other writers
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have time to ask questions as there are only ten participants per group
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learn how to create characters your readers can sympathise with
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learn how to choose the best point of view to write from
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gain increased self-confidence to take your writing forward on your own.
Starting Thursday 28th April 2022 at 7pm for four weeks ending 19th May 2022
Workshop fee: £99.99