#15: Improving Your Character Development

POW Podcast UK

In this episode we explore character development by looking at one of our characters in more detail – the lovely Darvin. We explore some popular and less well known ways to capture a personality that you are writing about, while drinking prosecco and gradually becoming more random (and slightly slurred).

How can you approach character development? We look at techniques and tricks for getting an in depth feel for your character’s personality and background. This includes looking at things like online dating profiles, questionnaires, theme songs, family trees and loads more. Jenni and Marc chat about how all of these factors shape the character of our Darv and how it adds to the story.

This episode also includes...

• We are now on so many channels/apps/listening thingies! Find us on Stitcher and Player.fm.
• The effect of prosecco – once you pop you can’t stop.
• Writing a book based in the 90s is filled with problems, mainly related to TV programmes, films and other cultural bits.
• Jenni’s son has super sonic hearing (he interrupts at about 3.40 after hearing us mention Pringles)
• Puss-filled piercings of the 90s, and how hip and happening we were
• Jenni is writing a play with the lovely Mandy (of Mud and Marriage fame)
• The advantages and pitfalls of writing journals, including Fearne Cotton's Happy journal
• We rant about the Royal Wedding and how we should care about the love and not about what people are wearing. Also how Amal Clooney is way more important than her husband.
• Marc has met POSH SPICE!
• Can you read 200 books a year? We question how many books the lovely Greg Jenner reads, and how long they are. We are clearly just jealous.

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Music: "Clap Your Hands" by Scott Holmes

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