Creative Characterization: A Workbook

by Jan Morrill

In Creative Characterization, Jan Morrill discusses methods she uses to develop characters such as those in her award-winning historical fiction, The Red • Interviewing • Describing Photos and Paintings • Writing Letters • Writing in a Different Point of View • and more! The exercises in this workbook will help develop characters, and may even lead to a bit of self-discovery along the way!

92 pages, Paperback

First published May 7, 2015

About the author

Jan Morrill was born and (mostly) raised in California. Her mother, a Buddhist Japanese American, was an internee at Tule Lake and Topaz during World War II. Her father, a Southern Baptist redhead of Irish descent, retired from the Air Force.

Her award-winning historical fiction, The Red Kimono,(University of Arkansas Press, 2013) and other short stories and memoir essays, reflect growing up in a multicultural, multi-religious, multi-political background.

While working on the sequel to The Red Kimono, Jan teaches writing workshops and speaks about the history of the Japanese American internment.