S10E7 – Developing Character Strengths
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. – Joss Whedon
Writing Roots
S10E6 – Developing Character Flaws
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! – Anton Chekhov
S10E5 – Character History: Nurture
People – and characters – are made up of their past experiences. When crafting a character, one of the most important aspects we consider is her past. – Sky Fairwin
S10E4 – Character History: Nature
One brain’s blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends, in part, on the DNA he has chanced to receive. – Thomas Lewis
S10E3 – Creating and Developing Character Relationships
A lone protagonist never receives as great a reaction as one with a well-developed supporting cast. – Susan Spann
S10E2 – Using D&D to Create a Story Character
You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow. – Gary Gygax
S10E1 – Statistics of a Character
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. – Ernest Hemingway
S9E9 – Suspension of Disbelief
It all begins with drawing yourself and your reader into what I call the Fictive Bubble. Think of it like a large soap bubble. That bubble is your story world and everything that happens there, regardless of genre. Your first objective is to pull a reader into it, where they will take an incredible journey with your characters. Your second objective is to keep the reader there, in that bubble. – Ted Dekker
S9E8 – The Rules of Writing
Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. – Melinda Haynes
S9 Bonus – Audience Participation
Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and lived it and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon