This week we're asking 'what makes a good character?' Is it about making them likeable, or are some traits more important?
What you'll learn:
- Why referring to your characters as 'heroes' or 'villains' is damaging to your writing process (and what to call them instead)
- Why your main character needs universal traits
- The #1 thing you need to understand to write well-rounded characters
Books, films, and TV shows referenced:
- Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Gilmore Girls
- Charmed
- Spice Girls
- Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
- 50 Shades of Grey - E.L.James
- Mamma Mia!
- You
- The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkein
- This is Us
- The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
- Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
- Bad Feminist - Roxanne Gay
- American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
- Mindhunter - John Douglas
- Difficult Mothers - Terri Apter
