The Characters │ The Mechanics of Fiction Writing: Full Course  (Part 3 of 6)
Channel: Mechanics of Fiction
Date: 01/04/2024

Learn how your readers form their impressions of your characters from the cues your writing presents them. Explore major attributes from reliability and agency to likability and roundness: access the keys to building characters readers will see as vivid human avatars.

Part 3 of 6 -- This is the same content contained in the individual lessons and playlists, which I'm compiling here for the sake of convenience. Timestamps:

PART III: The Characters 

26. Characters: A Primer 00:00
27. Explicit and Implicit Knowledge     06:20
28. From Agent to Patient     26:31
29. Cues That Build Empathy; Cues That Villainize    36:43
30. Rolling Rocks or Skipping Stones?      55:12

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