Getting Into Characters’ Heads
from Teachers Write
Today’s Assignment:
Think up a character with a different way of looking at the world (and a different way of talking) than “you” (as narrator) have. Your character is thinking about something. What is s/he thinking?
1. Show us using Quoted Monologue.
2. Tell us using Psycho-Narration.
3. Sneakily bring us into his/her head using Narrated Monologue.