Creative Characterization: A Workbook

by Jan Morrill

In Creative Characterization, award-winning author Jan Morrill discusses six different methods she uses to develop characters such as those in her historical fiction, The Red

•Interviewing
•Describing Photos and Paintings
•Writing Letters
•Writing in a Different Point of View
•Accessing Character’s Inner Child
•Internalization

The exercises in this workbook will help develop characters, and may even lead to a bit of self-discovery along the way!

44 pages, Kindle Edition

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.