Continuing their series on craft, in this episode, Jeremy and Trevor discuss characters and narration. They talk about what makes compelling characters, how characters, conflict, and plot are all interrelated, and how there is more precise terminology to refer to the narrator other than first, second, and third person.

Characters have wants and needs, and when those wants and needs don't mesh, we get conflict.

Internal conflict is when the wants and needs of a single character oppose each other.

External conflict exists when the wants and needs of one character oppose the wants and needs of another character.

Protagonists and antagonists shouldn't necessarily mean "heroes" and "villains." The protagonist changes through the story, and the antagonist is any character that stands in the way of resolving that conflict to bring about change.

Homodiegetic narrator -- a narrator that exists within the universe of the story.

Heterodiegetic narrator -- a narrator that doesn't appear to exist within the universe of the story.

Free indirect style -- (close third person), when a third person narrator follows one particular character closely throughout a story.

Fixed focalization -- one character is the focus of the narrator, or it is through one character's lens through which the story is revealed.

Variable focalization -- DIFFERENT scenes of the narrative are seen from the perspective of DIFFERENT CHARACTERS.

Multiple focalization -- The SAME scene in a narrative is shown from the perspective of DIFFERENT characters.

Origo -- the character around whom the scene is oriented.

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