{"id":135,"date":"2011-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=135"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:03:09","slug":"1st-november-2011-workshop-people-who-need-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridgewriters.org\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"1st November 2011 &#8211; workshop &#8220;People who need people&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--wp:paragraph--><\/p>\n<p>\n\tMost authors desperately need characters but how can they find them? Introspection? Using family and friends? Wandering about pubs? And when they find the right people how should they treat them &#8211; like galley slaves (Nabokov) or should the author just put them in a room and wait to see what happens (Beryl Bainbridge)? Tim Love will introduce a series of workshop exercises to help you develop your characters so that readers might recognise them if they met them in the street. 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