Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
As authors we spend a lot of time trying to make our readers care about the characters we create. We have a wide variety of techniques at our disposal to accomplish this. But do we ever ask ourselves why any of this is possible in the first place? What is it about…
We talk about how to make characters more or less proactive in the stories we tell.
In which we discuss adjusting how competent our characters appear…
In which we discuss adjusting how sympathetic the reader is toward a particular character…
We explore a three-value model for troubleshooting characters: Competence, Proactivity, and Sympathy
What makes characters engaging, and how is that different from them being sympathetic?
Nancy Fulda joins the cast for a discussion of narrative versus character perceptions
How do you go about transitioning characters in relative prominence during a series of books?
How do you help your readers relate to the non-human characters in your fiction?
The cast discusses how to make reluctant, non-proactive, non-go-getting characters interesting to read about.
