In this course, Cara Marks will lead you through a number of exercises, giving you helpful tips along to way, to help you design interesting and realistic characters in your writing.

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Course Curriculum

  Module 1 - Getting started
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  Module 2 - Taking the next steps
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  Module 3 - Putting it all together
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Hi, I’m Cara Marks

I am a writer, editor and educator. I earned my MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and I'm currently studying at Queen’s University Belfast for her creative-critical PhD on Food, Literature and Empathy. Her fiction has been long-listed for the 2019 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Competition, the 2017 Australian Book Review’s Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, and the 2016 Mogford Food and Drink Writing Prize. Her work has also appeared in the Commonwealth Writers’ literary journal adda, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing workshops, lessons and courses for adults and young people.