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Crafting Characters

If we define stories as "an emplaced narrative in which a sympathetic character is forced by a disruptive conflict to make a consequential choice or to uncover a consequential insight" - this is where the Character advice resides
WHEN CONFLICT AND CHARACTERS COLLIDE
Extrinsic or Intrinsic Choices, Reader Facing or Character Facing Reveals
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IMAGINE YOUR CHARACTERS AS THREE BRUISES IN A STATE OF RESOLUTION
When it comes to creating our characters, we can never have enough tool-paradigms, enough structuring heuristics.
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TO CREATE CHARACTERS FIRST IMAGINE THEIR UNRAVELING
When I’m writing my stories and sketching out the relationships between characters I often write down the lines of dialogue that if delivered by…
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HOW TO ACTIVATE YOUR CHARACTER'S STAKES
Unless you’ve written something very obvious, your characters won’t usually start out the narrative with a full understanding of the story’s Conflict…
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FUNDAMENTALS OF CHARACTER CREATION: TROUBLES
When we write a character well we are creating belief in that character.
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HOW CHARACTERS SUCCEED: THE THREE TELLS
A Diagnostic Series
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HOW CHARACTERS FAIL: THE CAMERA PROTAGONIST
A Diagnostic Series
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