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Creating Compelling Characters
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About Creating Compelling Characters
Introduction to Creating Compelling Characters
Course Project: Character Profile
Stories Are About Characters
Characterization
Wants & Needs
Character Design
True Character
Motivation
Cast Design
Character Function
Epilogue
What You Will Learn?
- Compelling characters are vital to the success of narrative storytelling, whether it's in the form of a novel, a short story, a narrative poem, a play, or a screenplay. Understanding how to craft interesting, unique characters that are driven by attainable goals will elevate the quality of your story and provide a window for the audience into that story's world. .
- In this course, you'll learn about basic and intermediate concepts like characterization, backstory, motivation, true character, choice, cast design, and character archetypes. .
- When you're in the middle of telling your story, it can be easy to forget the fundamentals. This course will provide you with a simple checklist of the things to consider while developing your characters. .
- Remember, writing is a process. Great characters don't usually emerge from one's brain fully formed. It takes time and work to make a compelling character, and that's what this course will help you to do. .