Description

In this episode, we explore the quiet, dizzying realization that you are not the lead character in every story. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• The Invisible Backpack: How to imbue background characters with the weight of their own ambitions, routines, and heart-wrenching decisions, even if they never speak a line of dialogue.

• The Storyteller’s Perspective: Techniques for creating profound fiction by using specific background details, NPCs with their own agendas, and the power of the unresolved thread to make a world feel like a living ecosystem.

Are you writing your background characters as furniture, or are you acknowledging the invisible weight each one carries into your world?

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