Creative Writing; Monday, First Period [05/18].

[sake_shinigami]

"Ahhh, welcome back, my little goslings ♥," Shunsui beamed his greeting as his little class got themselves settled in for another session of coffee, cocoa, kotatsu, and creation. He passed along the drink carriers of lattes and hot chocolate as he did last time, because drinking coffee was simply what was expected out of young authors, and also it was very, very early on a Monday morning, by his estimation, which was just cruel, and sipping sake in class was probably frowned upon. "I hope your week has left you you excited and inspired ♥! For today's lesson, we are going to be talking about developing characters, the driving force behind any good story, which should not be difficult for any of us, surrounded as we are by such interesting characters every day ♥."

"Like plot, characters are essential to almost all stories ♥. You can't really have one without the other; sometimes the characters are created out of a necessity for the plot, and other times, a plot begins to develop around the creation of characters ♥. Essentially, characters are our people, our friends and enemies, our little critters and important objects, the actors and the players on the stage of our book ♥. There is usually a hero and a villain. Or perhaps an anti-hero. There may be a beautiful love interest that the hero and villain are combating over, or perhaps a wise old sage who dispenses helpful....or unhelpful!...advice ♥. There are roguish captains wooing sexy pirates; bookish or dreamy young girls dreaming of princes ♥. Every day young men and women trying to discover who they are and what their purposes in life may be. When it comes to characters in fiction, just as with characters in life, there are no limits as to what there could be ♥.

"One of the easiest ways for a writer to write their stories is to really understand their character ♥ Know them as well as you know yourself, probably better; get inside them, inside their heads, their bodies, their emotions and feelings ♥. Know why they do what they do, their motivations, their reasons, their thoughts and opinions ♥. The writer, when writing, will become their characters, just as an actor on stage becomes their character for the duration of the play ♥. Do you want the character of the story to be someone like you, someone you can relate to and use as a voice ♥? Or do you want them to be quite different, to live vicariously through a person who will get the chance to do so many things differently than what life hands you now ♥? Either way, through your character, you can be whoever you want and have them do whatever your heart desires ♥. The heroes in my own work tend to be very dashing and incredibly charming, so, clearly, as you can see, I tend to lean more toward art imitating life ♥."

And yes, he winked at them with that, following it with a small little chuckle.

"So," he ventured toward his conclusion, "that is what we will be doing today ♥! I want you all to spend some time really working out a character, who you can use in future projects throughout the course ♥. I have some worksheets that may help you really get down to the details of a character, but you, as the writer, of course, may determine what is important about them and what is not ♥. Feel free to bounce ideas off of each other, and, when we've all worked a little bit on our characters, we'll then put them into action, and I'll tell you more about that when we're finished ♥.

"Any questions before we begin ♥?"


[[ OCD incoming! now has a fully developed character arc. have at it! ]]

Try Not to Die, Monday, May 18, 2020

[sith_happened]

"Welcome back," Anakin said. "Today we are going to Kazakhstan, a country I'm not entirely sure I'm pronouncing right. It's kind of near Russia if that helps anyone?"

He pointed in a general way at the map and might've end up on Kyrgystan. Oops.

"Just like last week, you will have three different tasks to complete," he said, "but today we're start with a new and exciting competition! The first person to finish the challenge gets to skip the other two tasks and procede right to the end."

Because the challenge was...not delightful.

He clapped his hands together. "Welcome to Almaty! Try not to die."

Time Management- Monday- 4th period

[fates_jaye]

Today the Danger Shop was made up to look like a different kind of shop. Like, say, a gift shop selling a ton of cheesy Niagara Falls merchandise.

She was going to have to teach this lesson sooner or later, might as well make it sooner so she didn't have to think about it later.

"You made it back for a second week. Congratulations," Jaye greeted them. "I'm putting you to work."

She went one by one, handing out vests with the students' names stitched onto them. Was she maybe still a little sore about getting passed over for the promotion at a job she didn't even like? Possibly! In fact, probably!

"You're going to be working here today. The problem is it's a Monday morning and you know how many people you're going to get in here? Nada. And honestly you don't want to deal with them anyway. But you still have to figure out how to look busy because as much as this sucks, food costs money. So you'll create busy work. You can shuffle certain things around the shelves. You can look for something in back. You can dust. Whatever means you're working, but not actually working. I'll be playing the part of your supervisor, and you should look busy anytime I come around. Let's see what you come up with."

Definitely still sore about the promotion.