Week of April 22, 2012—Creating Characters
Kids Love with Joyce Sweeney
Quote
of the week:
‘Let it be loudly
asserted that character, strong characters, are at the heart of all great
literature and always will be. Plot, even in detective fiction, is a very
secondary matter. Not many readers could outline the plot of The Sign of the
Four but no one has any difficulty bringing Holmes and Watson to mind.
“A writer who does not
create convincing characters will fail. A writer who creates thrilling,
troubling, seductive, insistent characters need not worry too much about any
other aspect of writing. You do not need to know how to spell. You do not need
to know much about grammar. You do not even need any huge sensitivity to
language, though this is the other quality that really matters in writing; it
is also, perhaps, the most resistant to any kind of formal teaching.”
—Andrew Miller
This
week we’ll spend time with Joyce Sweeney, author, writing coach, mentor, and
workshop leader to learn about creating characters kids love.
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