John Cartier has his students use composition level skills and paper formats (process, narrative, cause and effect, etc) to create a fictional story of a character. They pick from 23 tropes and then follow steps:
- Draft one: define appearance and personality
- Draft two describe character’s room, very detailed in thirds person
- Draft three process of something and then narrative of a foil
- Draft one research about something
- Draft two turning point
- Draft three additional narrative and 10 million dollar example
- Draft four personal letter