4:08 / Boxing Characters to Build Foundations / Discovering Characters

Boxing Characters helps the writer explore the many sides of their characters … so those characters come alive on the page and don’t change personalities in the center of the story.

After all, the greatest of all writing crimes is to betray the reader by having characters change on them. Plot holes and unsurprising twists can be forgiven when our readers love our characters. Few readers will forgive characters who change their goals and behaviors in the story.

Then how do we create a strong foundation for our characters? We build those foundational blocks by working through various boxes: simple, ticky boxes that create solid walls of personality.

Contents

• 0:39 Intro
• 1:30 Simple Boxes: the Humours and the Enneagram
• 6:03 16 Boxes / the Myers-Briggs
• 8:19 Dichotomous Categories
• 12:45 12 Original Archetypes / Carl Jung
• 18:59 Positive and Negative Duality
• 20:16 Closing

Discovering Characters  can be purchased at these links:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y7LYK19

https://books2read.com/u/3RJrZB

Discovering Your Writing, a bundle of four writing craft books, is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08691892S

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