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Character Development

Hey again, As my title suggests I want to talk about character development. I feel that it is my weakest point at the moment, even though strong characters are what I value the most in stories. Therefore it would be greatly educative to read how you fine people approach the matter. I feel that I got...

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David S. Larson

Characters are what they do, what they say, and how the react and interact with the world around them -- that informs the viewer with everything they need to know but wanting more (as long as you don't do a dump all at once).

Pete Dowd

A professor of mine once wanted us to write the characters bio from birth to the moment the story starts but I always thought that was a bit much. My advice would be to just spend a lot of time with y...

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Phil Parker

This post is from eight years ago, but the challenge remains eternal.

Eric Christopherson

One day I will run into an old post here from years ago and argue with myself.

William Martell

Character and Story are connected and can not be pulled apart. So if you have a story, you also have your lead character.

Though this comes at it from the Character side, it illustrates the connectio...

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Luis R. Quintero
Poll of the day!

What is the best comedy film of all time?

Maryann&Michael Tedstone

Monty Python Holy Grail ?! Airplane is amazing however.

E. Thomas Canton

Some Like It Hot - great performances (Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Joe E. Brown), beautifully written, clever dialogue - movies don't get better than this.

Mark Ratering

if kem can add i will too "holy grail"

D.S. Ullery

Whenever I'm asked this question, only one answer (since 1984, at least) is always the first and best to come to mind : Ghostbusters, To this day,that is the single funniest film (with the most quotable dialogue) that I have ever seen.

Bob Wagner

Kem: I love "My Fellow Americans!" Great little movie with two classic talents. I watch it about 2-3 times a year. A few years back I watched it with my girlfriend, and for weeks afterward she kept referring to me as "Blinky."

Richard "RB" Botto
Terrific Titanic Article

Where Titanic ranks as an all time great is a polarizing subject. Great article by Dana Stevens regarding how we view film, in this case Titanic, with the passage of time... http://slate.me/HUvYGl

Joshua Adams

Link is too long to be copied/pasted properly. Run it through www.bit.ly first :)

Richard "RB" Botto

Fixed...Thanks, Joshua.

Joshua Adams

Great article, thanks for sharing!

Richard "RB" Botto

Absolutely.

Twit-Pitch Logline Feedback.

So, this coming Saturday I'm participating in Twit-Pitch, and I feel I got a doable draft of my 135 character long logline down, but it would be awesome with some feedback from the more experienced people roaming this wonderful site. "In an America ruined by mutated dogs, an ex-assassin searches for...

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Joshua Adams

The problem is that it's limited to 134 characters, so there's really not that much room to go deeper into describing.

Matt Tucker

I'd drop the 'ing' from "rivaling" to make it an "old rival agency". Maybe even drop 'old' or replace with 'once'. "...to settle the score with a once rival agency." Frees up some characters as well....

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Richard "RB" Botto

The Princess is here! Love it. I will let others chime in, but the first thing I noticed is that it doesn't speak to the challenge the hero faces. When confronted with (this) our hero does (this) only to discover (this)...

Joshua Adams

Thanks a lot for the inputs everyone, very highly appreciated! I'm gonna take all of this into consideration, talk a bit with Miss Princess and hopefully come up with something much better than what I...

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