This week we're asking 'what makes a good character?' Is it about making them likeable, or are some traits more important?

What you'll learn:

• Why referring to your characters as 'heroes' or 'villains' is damaging to your writing process (and what to call them instead)
• Why your main character needs universal traits
• The #1 thing you need to understand to write well-rounded characters

Books, films, and TV shows referenced:

• Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Gilmore Girls
• Charmed
• Spice Girls
• Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
• 50 Shades of Grey - E.L.James
• Mamma Mia!
• You
• The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkein
• This is Us
• The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
• Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
• Bad Feminist - Roxanne Gay
• American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
• Mindhunter - John Douglas
• Difficult Mothers - Terri Apter