Workshop: Characters

For this exercise we had to discuss our favourite literary characters. After intense deliberation (and I mean intense) I decided on Anne Shirley from 'Anne of Green Gables'. I have seriously read this book about ten times, apparently my mum used to read it to me when I was a baby. I really love Anne - she's such an entertaining person - and I love how we get to watch her grow in maturity and understanding.

Using our favourite characters, we were asked to describe a character (of the opposite sex) who portrayed a similar characteristic. I wrote about a boy with red hair and a vivid imagination.

Another great exercise we had was this: we were all given three pieces of different coloured paper. On on piece we had to write a number between 5 and 70 (I wrote 39), on another we had to write a unique physical characteristic and on the last, an extreme emotion. We then had to swap our cards with fellow classmates, so I ended up with a 39-year-old character with a disfigured arm experiencing extreme happiness. It was difficult! But I think I pulled through.