#Vilhelm Hammershoi

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Vilhelm Hammershoi.

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Writing Worksheets: Character

Worksheets & Templates Character Creator; Name; Quirks; Flaws; Motivation

CHARACTER CREATOR

Limitations

Plot Requirements:

Genre Requirements:

Story Requirements:

Interest

Interesting Occupations/Roles:

Interesting Goals/Motivations:

Interesting Backstories:

Definitions

Words they use to define themselves:

Words their friends and family use to define them:

Words their opponents use to define them:

Behaviours

Typical response to conflict:

Skills that help them resolve conflict:

Flaws that hinder them resolving conflict:

NAMING YOUR CHARACTER

What language/s do the characters speak?

How are first names given?

How are secondary names given?

How are names used in the language?

Influences (Cultural, Linguistic, Social):

Notes on pronunciation:

Do names change? If so, how and why?

Titles/honorifics:

Names & occupations:

Names & the law:

Names & the family:

For each character, fill out the following:

First Name:

Its Meaning or Connotation:

Surname:

Its Meaning or Connotation:

Nickname/s:

CHARACTER QUIRKS

Why does the character engage in this quirk?

How did they develop this quirk?

How does this quirk shape their daily life?

When and how does this quirk manifest?

What problem/s does this quirk cause?

Is the character happy with this quirk or do they want to change?

What character traits does this quirk imply?

Who is attracted to this quirk?

Whom does this quirk irritate?

CHARACTER FLAWS

What flaws do they see in themselves?

What flaws do friends and family see in them?

What are their defining characteristics?

How can you exaggerate these characteristics into flaws?

What is the goal the character is trying to achieve?

What flaw would make this goal more difficult to attain?

What flaws would the character admit to?

What flaws would the character not admit to?

What problems does this flaw cause the character?

Do they need to overcome this flaw?

What do they need to do in order to overcome this flaw?

How does their attitude toward this character flaw change?

CHARACTER MOTIVATION

Four Categories of Character Motivation:

People: other characters who might have influenced the character (negatively or positively) or provided them with services or resources they needed.

Events: experiences the character has lived through, and the memories and interpretations formed from them.

Environments: places and situations that might support or suppress the character’s actions.

Beliefs: the worldviews and priorities that the character activates during decision-making, whether correct or incorrect, empowering or disempowering.

Character Awareness:

If the character ISN'T aware of their motivation, they may be acting automatically, repeating patterns from their backstory when they need to change and adapt. These hidden motivations are usually revealed in the character’s behaviour or in subtle hints by other characters (or by the author). The character’s ignorance of their true motivation may keep them from making the change they need to make.

If the character IS aware of their motivation, it’s probably the conscious driving factor in their actions, perhaps their goal or dream. They will talk or think about it frequently and feel good about identifying with it, but this identification may also cause problems if it keeps them from making the change they need to make.

Person

What does the character need to be motivated to do?

What character traits/knowledge/skills does this action require?

What values/beliefs does this action require?

Who might have these traits/knowledge/skills/values/beliefs?

Who might lack these traits/knowledge/skills/values/beliefs?

How/where might they have met?

How did this person influence the character?

Why did this person influence the character in the way they did?

Event

What does the character need to be motivated to do?

What character traits/knowledge/skills does this action require?

What values/beliefs does this action require?

What event would bring out these traits/knowledge/skills/values/beliefs?

How did the character come to be invovled in this event?

Why was this event so important/memorable to the character?

Why did the character interpret this event the way they did?

Is the character consciously aware of this motivation?

Environment

What does the character need to be motivated to do?

What character traits/knowledge/skills does this action require?

What values/beliefs does this action require?

What sort of environment might create these traits/knowledge/skills/values/beliefs?

What sort of environment might suppress these traits/knowledge/skills/values/beliefs?

Why was the character in this environment?

Why did this environment have an impact on the character?

Is the character consciously aware of this motivation?

Beliefs/Values

What does the character need to be motivated to do?

What beliefs does this action require?

What empowering beliefs does this action require?

How does the character justify these beliefs to themselves and to others?

What disempowering beliefs does this action require?

How does the character justify these beliefs to themselves and to others?

Rank your Character's Values (from 1-5):

You may use the Value Lists below as a guide, excerpted from Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins

Moving-Toward Values: Love, Success, Freedom, Intimacy, Security, Adventure, Power, Passion, Comfort, Health

Moving-Away-From Values: Rejection, Anger, Frustration, Loneliness, Depression, Failure, Humiliation, Guilt

Source Writing References: Worldbuilding ⚜ Plot ⚜ Character

[whisperthatruns]

Hammershøi made a room a ship on its own with panes overlapping all over the floor the windows are drawn, the windows come in the windows come running and the open door is falling into room after room with the silence of sun. He said open and everything he painted then opened a woman sewing enters in infinite gradations, the white that never gets there remains who, alone in a house with light, built his house entirely of doors.

Cole Swensen, The Glass Age (Alice James Books, 2007)

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Vilhelm Hammershøi: Interior from Strandgade with Sunlight on the Floor (1901) • Interior with a lady (1901) • Interior. Strandgade 30 (1901) • Bedroom, Strandgade 30 (1906)

[timotey]

Interior, Woman at the Open Door, art by Vilhelm Hammershøi 

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

A Room in the Artist’s Home in Strandgade, Copenhagen, with the Artist’s Wife – Vilhelm Hammershøi (detail) // Interior with Easel – Vilhelm Hammershøi // Open Doors – Vilhelm Hammershøi (detail) // Dust Motes Dancing in Sunbeams – Vilhelm Hammershøi // December '04 – The Oh Hellos

[slack-wise]

Vilhelm Hammershøi

[oncanvas]

Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1912

Oil on canvas 78.7 x 70.5 cm (31 x 27 ¾ in.) J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

[oldsardens]

Vilhelm Hammershoi - Landskab. Sommer. Ryet

[museum-archives]

Interior of Courtyard, Strandgade 30

Artist: Vilhelm Hammershoi (Danish, 1864-1916)

Date: 1899

Medium: oil on canvas

[roomsbythesee]

Interior with Young Woman from Behind - Vilhelm Hammershoi

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Landscape. Summer. “Ryet” Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish; 1864–1916) 1896 Oil on canvas Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark

[jinsei-pika-pika]

ヴィルヘルム・ハンマースホイ （Vilhelm Hammershøi、1864-1916） 『室内、蝋燭の明かり』 （Interior. Artificial Light）

[thedeadleafs]

Vilhelm Hammershoi, Interior, 1903-04

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Vilhelm Hammershoi, Interior, 1903-04

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Vilhelm Hammershoi - Self portrait

Vilhelm Hammershøi (15 May 1864 – 13 February 1916), was a Danish painter. Hammershøi was the last great painter in Danish nineteenth-century art. He painted against a background of modern experience, but his painting never broke with the basic rules that had the pictures of the Danish Golden Age.

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Vilhelm Hammershøi "Sovekammer" 1890