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Back to Basics
S18 Ep49
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* Team Rejection count: 226
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Main Topic: Characters
* The Basic (Standard) Characters: characters have & need structure too
* The Protagonist changes, movement must occur
* The Antagonist creates obstacles, challenges Protagonist resolve
* Think about how your characters can & will interact while building them
* Reference: “45 Master Characters” by Veronica Schmidt
* ( ed note: author KM Weiland has a podcast, and she’s done a series on character arcs, and also positive, negative, flat and shadow archetypes, both in podcast and in book, https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/)
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