{"id":342,"date":"2020-02-05T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2020-02-04T18:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:02:34","slug":"breathing-life-into-a-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/05\/breathing-life-into-a-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathing Life into a Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(This is a continuation of handouts that I recently distributed at a writing seminar.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;a part of us is in every character<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;who are we called to write about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Could be someone in our life, could be someone we see in a news report, someone in a dream\/imagination)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>QUESTIONS TO ASK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who do you personally root for?<\/p>\n<p>What kind of people do you root for?<\/p>\n<p>How do you or people around you feel misunderstood?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elements of Voice:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>POV and tone<br \/>\nDialogue<br \/>\nMetaphors<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revealing Relationships:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intimate<br \/>\nFamily<br \/>\nCo-workers, Team Members<br \/>\nNemesis<br \/>\nStrangers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Naming your character:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Something unique and personal<br \/>\nSomething meaningful<br \/>\nSomething cultural appropriate<br \/>\nSomething with a good rhythm<br \/>\nGoogle to check<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is a continuation of handouts that I recently distributed at a writing seminar.) &#8211;a part of us is in every character &#8211;who are we called to write about? (Could be someone in our life, could be someone we see in a news report, someone in a dream\/imagination) QUESTIONS TO ASK Who do you personally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-resources","category-writing-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}