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Creating characters

Pay Attention to Your Supporting Characters!

Consider the wonderful opportunities your supporting characters provide, and turn your script from average to thoroughly entertaining remarkably quickly!

Tim Schildberger

A Story to Tell through Music: An Interview with ‘O’Dessa’ Writer-Director Geremy Jasper Sadie Dean

How to Write Bankable and Believable Characters The Writers Store

Breaking and Entering: The Man in the Hole Barri Evins

Make Stories Relatable to Large Audiences: A Conversation with ‘Quiz Lady’ and ‘Totally Killer’ Screenwriter Jen D’Angelo Sadie Dean

Darth Vader, The Incredible Hulk, and Five Other Characters with Dissociative Identity Disorder Stephenie Magister

How to Complicate Characters: A Conversation with ‘In the Know’ Co-Creators Zach Woods and Brandon Gardner Sadie Dean

Ask the Right Questions: Interrogate Your Story with Tips from Showrunner Issa López of ‘True Detective: Night Country’Valerie Kalfrin

Why Your Characters Matter More than You Think They Do Tim Schildberger

Connect Your Characters with Your Audience or Your Script Dies Script Magazine

Breaking & Entering: Create Story Magic With The Rule of Threes Barri Evins

On Character Development & Arc with Screenwriter Jeff Howard Jenna Avery

Who Needs Bad Guys When You Have Climate Villains?Leigh Medeiros

Write Bankable Characters and Bullet Proof 1-Hour Pilots The Writers Store

Sublime Storytelling: Screenwriter Tab Murphy on his Foray into Documentary Film Barri Evins

The Sweet 16! The Only Tool You’ll Ever Use Again To Create Characters Script Magazine

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