S10 Bonus – Character Interviews
The only characters I ever don’t like are the ones that leave no impression on me. And I don’t write characters that leave no impression on me. – Lauren DeStefano
Designing Your Characters
S10E8 – Character Archetypes
The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit… archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character. – Kristan Higgins
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
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