November Meeting Cancelled

Unless otherwise announced, we will not be meeting for the month of November. Our next meeting then will be the third Monday of December (the 15th) 6-8 PM.

Our challenge which will now be extended until December, is to write a characterization -- several pages detailing the appearance, background, motivations, etc. of a character (this need not be about a character in a story you are currently writing). This information helps round out the characters for the writer though much of it might never be told to the reader of the story. The purpose is to know your character inside and out so that you (the writer) can portray that character with more realism and continuity. Feel free to use a picture (i.e. from a handy mail-order catalogue) to create an "illustration" of your character. This can be a helpful jumping off point to begin your characterizations.

Also, as we will now have two months to work on this challenge, you may wish to work on a brief scene (containing dialogue and description) using the character developed from that exercise.