How to Write Characters Who Sound Nothing Like You
I’ve never been a cop. I’ve also never been an old man, or a plague doctor, or an alien being, or a nuclear physicist. But as a screenwriter, it’s very likely I’ll one day write some or all of these kinds of characters, ones that are totally outside my experience or even my reality. How […]
How to Create Three-Dimensional Characters From a One-Dimensional Character
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the characters in your script feel too written, too contrived like they don’t exist in the real world. For many beginning writers, creating characters that pop off the page and grip the reader is incredibly hard. The one major note I wind up giving younger writers is […]