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课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/craft-of-character
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课程名称：创意写作：角色的技巧 课程概述：好的故事的核心是其角色。在此课程中，渴望成为作家的学员将学习如何构建复杂、生动且令人难忘的角色。我们将研究作家在角色塑造中所做出的选择，并进行写作练习，以培养各种写作和预写作技巧，创造出多样的角色。我们将学习如何利用自己的生活经历和熟悉的人物（以及应避免的做法），为角色发展内在（思想和感受）和外在（外貌、习惯、行为）生活，从而导致更丰富、更有趣的故事。我们将赋予角色以生命，让他们给我们带来惊喜。 课程大纲： 1. **从生活及他处发现角色** 描述：在作家动笔之前，其想法是什么？角色通过冲突和戏剧性显现出来。没有冲突，故事就失去了意义。我们将讨论人类的欲望，即使我们并不确切知道自己真正渴望的是什么。最后，我们将像米开朗基罗一样，逐步去除一切非必需的元素，探寻与故事密切相关的角色特质。 2. **在纸上创造角色** 描述：在此模块中，我们深入探讨角色的构造。角色的外貌如何描述？他们的动作如何展现个性？他们的语言风格如何？当角色需要帮助、理解甚至救赎时，能够吸引读者的，往往不是角色的可爱，而是这一需求。最终，我们将讨论情节如何通过角色的行为与对话揭示其内心生活。 3. **对话与独白** 描述：我们如何引导读者进入一个真实的世界？叙述者对主题和观众有着怎样的态度？在本模块中，我们将考量规划这些现实时需要考虑的因素，包括第一人称与第三人称的区别，以及构建真实感对话的方法，同时去除冗长与乏味。我们还将探讨角色的独特性及其如何推动叙事发展。 4. **让您的角色自由……并给他们一个去处** 描述：在这一模块中，我们反思读者如何认识角色，以及我们作为作家如何了解这些角色。我们会提出问题：谁在讲述故事？为什么？目标是什么？课程最后，我们将讨论叙述者及其叙事方式，看看它们如何塑造读者对角色和故事的感知。 通过本课程的学习，您将掌握创造生动角色的技巧，并为您的写作带来新的灵感和思路。
Name:Discovering Characters from Your Life and Elsewhere
Description:What happens in the writer's mind before any words are written on the paper? Characters then reveal themselves through conflict and drama. Without conflict there is no purpose to the story. We then discuss desire. Human beings want things, even when we don't really know what it is we wish for. Finally, we conclude the module like Michelangelo, chipping away everything that is not the masterpiece statue of David. Learn to find what is germane to the story you are telling by looking closely at the character.
Name:Creating Characters on the Page
Description:Here, we delve deeper into the characters. What is their physical description, and how can we describe them through action? How do they speak? What makes me want to read about them? When your characters need help or understanding, or even rescuing, this draws the reader in, far more than likability. Finally, we discuss how the plot reveals the inner life of characters through what they do as well as say.
Name:Dialogue and Monologue
Description:How do we lead a reader to a world that feels real? Narrators have an attitude, towards subjects and audience, about the world and its events. We discuss in this module considerations involved in planning for these realities, including the differences between first and third person and the construction of dialogue with verisimilitude - the feel of real life - while stripping away the tedium. We ask what idiosyncrasies your characters possess and how to control them to advance the narrative.
Name:Set Your Characters Free.. and Give Them Somewhere to Go
Description:In this module, we reflect on how our readers learn about our characters - and how we as writers do, as well. We ask questions about who is telling the story, why, and with what goal. We conclude the course with a conversation about the narrator and, distinctly, the narrative, to see how they shape the reader's perception of character and story.
At the center of a good story are the characters in it. In this course aspiring writers will discover how to build and bring to life complex, vivid and unforgettable characters. We will study the choices a writer makes to bring all characters to life on the page, and we will perform written exercises in order to develop a variety of writing and pre-writing techniques, in order to create a variety of characters. We will learn how to use our own life experiences, and the people we know (and how not to!). We will develop inner (thoughts and feelings) and outer (appearance, habits, behavior) lives for our characters and see how that can lead us to richer and more interesting stories. We will breathe life into our characters and let them surprise us.
