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Becoming your characters is one of the most important parts in writing a novel because it helps the reader feel the emotions that the character is feeling. I think that this website helped me write about my characters and the relationships between the characters. This website was filled with some really good tips!

I used this article because I was looking for some inspiration to write a play. Turns out, this website was the just the thing I needed. The random generators are really helpful when you can't think of something interesting for a character you are writing about. There are plot, character, title, and name generator included in this website. I used these generators to come up with character names and even some different interesting things about my characters. They are super helpful when you are stuck or your story needs a lift! This is very different from other sources I have use because it is not an article, but a generator. I would highly recommend this source!

12/4/13 I found this article on how to make an actor become a three-dimensional character. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Dee Cannon shares the ten questions that actors need to investigate about their character to make them a fully-idealised person instead of just a character's dialogue with a visual of them. The ten questions and Cannon's advice on how to answer the questions through your character's point of view helped me to understand how professional actor's are able to become the character. A couple of the questions reminded me of what I talked about with Jen Allred about how to act my break-up scene in "A Christmas Carol" well. It also gave me other suggestions that I will use the next character I act.

This is a short video by professional theater director Dr. Charles Grimes about finding your character while rehearsing monologues by using a outside to inside method. Helpful if you're having a hard time understanding the personality of your character for an audition.

This website provided me with games to help create immediate and reactive character development. I'm enrolled in theatre arts this semester, and some of these games are similar to ones we play. I may even suggest one of these games to play in class.

I watched the movie version of "A Christmas Carol" with Kelsey Grammar and Jennifer Love Hewitt. This version is the one closest to the musical script that we used for the fall musical. An enjoyable movie that helped me visualize the characters and understand the story in another way.

This website was incredible. It went through step by step to help me plan out my novel. It went through summarizing and character charts. It even said to take the one paragraph summary and turn it into a four page summary/description of the novel. It was one of the best websites that I have ever used.

This website helped me learn how to write dialogue smoothly and flow-like like in a movie or in a real life conversation. It told me what to do and what not to do which was helpful. I learned that dialogue sets the character's mood towards another character in the story and that was something that I wanted to learn more on. I think I expanded my knowledge of writing dialogue by finding this website!

This website allows you to read "A Christmas Carol" free online. It's a great way to read the original text without having to buy the book because it has the full text online for free. The site also supplies other books online for free, like an online library.

This website gives 6 steps you can go through to master difficult acting scenes. The six tips they provide are helpful hints about how to get around common difficulties when acting harder emotions, such as anger or sadness.

Here's another short video, apart of a mini series about acting, by professional theater director Dr. Charles Grimes that touches on how to tap into your real emotions on stage, and in acting auditions. Helpful for anyone dealing with hard emotions to portray onstage.

I used this site when I was confused about what I was writing about but I used this site that shows many different ways to get out of writers block and clear up and move on in my writing. It also provided different ways to organize who your characters are and ways to organize the tense you are writing in. This site also gives good writing tips.

Very in depth video on the process of stage makeup for the character Marley. Helps build ideas and show how makeup has progressed.

I was curious about what colleges look for in the characteristics of a student. I always had an idea about what they were looking for in the essays but never in a student, so this article was interesting to read.

This video shows ideas that were drawn out and then brought to life for the characters in play.

Written by Bruce Miller, the director of acting programs at the University of Miami, this article talks about the skill of listening and reacting on-stage during scenes. Miller starts out by talking about his experience with his freshman acting classes, then goes on to talk about the skills of how to listen and react to the actions and dialogue on-stage and in the moment.

This article explains how to keep a story captivating, what each character wanted, and how to not be too confusing. It gives a good sense of what would be expected to not create a dull story.

This site gave five different and very helpful tips on writing dialogue and making it sound good. It is a very helpful site when you are trying to make good and realistic dialogue.

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