Acting

Today in class we did acting exercises to get to know our story characters better. As a class we pushed the tables out and formed a circle, the first few exercises we did were mainly to loosen us up. The next exercise we did was with our own characters, with our props we would pose just as our character would. The next exercise was introducing our characters to the class. So within our group we chose one character and introduced them as they would introduce themselves. Doing this exercise made me realize that my character well lacked a lot of character. The next exercise was acting a scene from our story. The purpose of this was to get to know our character even better and just make them even more human. Although my group didn’t get to go I still learned that my character and story lacked a lot of depth. There is definitely a lot my group has to work on before starting our novel.
During these exercises I compiled a list of things I needed to work on for my story. The first thing our group needs to work on is the complexity of our character as of now our character lacks tons of depth. Our character definitely needs an edge of something that makes him different from all our other minor characters. The second thing our group needs to work on is our synopsis. Our synopsis does not have a lot of detail and I would like it not all to be about war and add more aspects of the war. These excrcies helped me realize that I have a lot of work to do for our novel.