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Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

Character, Events, Stories, Requires, Inner, Story

Whether we know it or not, our minds and hearts are populated by all the characters we will ever need - though we may disassemble them and rearrange the parts into composites for variation.

Character, Characters, Disassemble, Heart, Mind, Populated

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

Regret, Character, Pride, Emotional, Exploring

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

Beings, Character, Cogs, Happens, Plot

Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her desires, as well as her vulnerabilities, her secrets, and especially her contradictions. This development needs to be forged in scenes, the better to employ your intuition rather than your intellect.

Character, Frustration, Focus, Desire, Scenes

Amy Cuddy

Amy Cuddy

Milton R. Hunter

Milton R. Hunter

Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel

Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

William Beveridge

William Beveridge

C. Vivian Stringer

C. Vivian Stringer

David Letterman

David Letterman

Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer

Roberta Bondar

Roberta Bondar

Aloe Blacc

Aloe Blacc

Martin Landau

Martin Landau

Robbie Myers

Robbie Myers