MAKTABA: WRITE YOUR NOVEL
CONNECTING WITH YOUR CHARACTERS
Free Lesson: Connect with your story characters
- What is closest to their heart?
- What excuses do they make?
- What drives their behaviour?
- What are their higher goals?
Free Lesson: Connect more deeply with your characters, with lessons from the work of Rumi, Attar and Ibn Arabi
In this lesson we look at techniques from the classical qasidah ode, Fariduddin Attar’s Conference of the Birds, and Rumi’s Masnavi to connect with story characters more deeply so that readers relate to them on a more personal level, and keep turning the pages to find out what happens next.
Learn to connect more deeply with your characters to deliver a more powerful story, with examples from the storytelling traditions of the Muslim world.