An excerpt from the lecture Scott Edelman gave at Odyssey in the summer of 1999 on choosing the best character for your story idea.

Scott Edelman on Choosing the Best Character for Your Story Idea

The Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust is a nonprofit with the mission of helping writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror improve their work. To fulfill our mission, we offer Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop, an intensive, one-on-one online program, customized for each student. Top authors, editors, and agents serve as guest lecturers and guest critiquers. We also offer five-week online writing classes each winter; webinars, critiques, consultations, and coaching year-round, and many free resources. These podcasts are excerpts from guest lectures at our workshop and from our online classes. For more information on Odyssey, visit odysseyworkshop.org.

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Scott Edelman on Choosing the Best Character for Your Story Idea

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