The Ore: Fictionalising Human Psychological Entrenchment FILLABLE PDF ONE PURCHASE; INFINITE CHARACTERS

Character Workbook

Your characters walk and talk, they have nice hair and stunning eyes, but do you ever feel as if they are more like dolls being moved around a dollhouse rather than fully realised beings?

Worse: do you run out of plot and have no clue what your characters should be doing?

This character profile workbook doesn't just help you remember eye and hair colour. No, this workbook digs deep into the psychology of your characters so that they will not just stomp around your stage, trying to sound like real people, but think and act in accordance with their own specific psychological entrenchment. An entrenchment that will drive the plot itself.

No more floundering over what your character should do next. No more meaningless character choreography while you try to find purpose. A deep sense of your character's psychology transforms your story into a journey of wonder, delight and maybe even horror.

This fillable PDF helps you:

• Uncover psychological depth – explore how your character thinks, acts, and why they do so.
• Understand the boundaries that depth creates within their sphere of subjectivity – and how it affects their decision-making.
• Write with confidence – Includes short fiction exercises to test-drive your cast.

What’s Inside?

• Provocative questions (from surface traits to core beliefs).
• Cultural/world-building prompts (your character will be chiselled from their homeland).
• “Unorthodox” angles (to surprise even you).
• Reusable template (one purchase = infinite characters).

If you want to skip draft-after-draft character discovery and write a decent first draft quicker and sharper, love character-driven plots (or want to try them), then this is the tool for you. Fill in the fields on your computer or phone (no printing needed), Use the exercises to “interview” your character (a proven effective technique for better character depictions), and watch them come alive on the page.

Bonus: Works hand-in-hand with my Plotting by Fear & Ambition Worksheet for full-story planning. Or, go the whole hog with my Character to Pitch Novel Writing Kit or From Map to Meaning Speculative & Historical Novel-Writing Kit

Testimonial from my online classes (from which the worksheet is adapted):

“Well-organised and practical. It’s cool to see character-building from an emotional perspective.”

– Udeme Stroud

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