How to Write Bankable and Believable Characters

Writing amazing screenplays starts with crafting memorable characters that jump off the page and become the types of characters people quote and remember for years to come. Successful screenplays stimulate the emotions and imagination of audiences because they feature fascinating characters. 

Writing Memorable Characters (OnDemand Webinar) Writing amazing screenplays starts with crafting memorable characters that jump off the page and become the types of characters people quote and remember for years to come. In this OnDemand webinar, script doctor Cody Smart shares what she’s learned throughout her years helping elevate all sorts of Hollywood scripts: character-driven stories are what readers and buyers are looking for. ($39.99 value) 

The Sweet 16! The Only Tool You'll Ever Use Again To Create Characters (OnDemand Webinar) In this OnDemand webinar, Jennifer Dornbush shares 16 short and sweet tools to create enduring, popular, living, and breathing characters. The Sweet 16 is an easily-repeatable method that works for any writer, any genre, and any story form: short film, novella, novel, screenplay, TV pilot, stage play, video game, even documentary & memoir. This trick guarantees that you will have a credible, memorable, and actionable character, that helps you build a solid story structure which stays focused on the hero’s journey! ($39.99 value)

Developing Fascinating Characters (OnDemand Webinar) Successful screenplays stimulate the emotions and imagination of audiences because they feature fascinating characters. This OnDemand webinar provides powerful but simple tools that will guide you in creating engaging and involving movie people. Learn how to design characters from scratch and apply time-tested techniques in developing them into intriguing personalities, and start them on their respective internal and external journeys.

Create Authentic Characters Using Your Personal Experiences (OnDemand Webinar) Through exercises, personal stories, a guided mediation and worksheets, you’ll get the bigger picture of how to connect with your core wounds in this 90-minute OnDemand webinar. From there, we’ll look at strategies on how to fuse these themes into your characters to make them live and breathe in huge ways. This OnDemand webinar isn’t about how to write screenplays. It’s about how to write screenplays that matter. ($39.99 value)

Developing Believable Characters (OnDemand Webinar) Learn the upfront work to build compelling characters easily, which will help you write your screenplay because your characters are writing it as they make choices; reverse engineer your previously-written personalities in your stories into more persuasive and life-like people. By using her 5-quick question technique, you’ll learn whether your characters are believable and understand how to improve them. ($39.99 value)

Secondary Characters: Techniques for Writing Unforgettable Supporting Characters (OnDemand Webinar) Imagine Bridesmaids without Megan (Melissa McCarthy), Her without Samantha, The King’s Speech without Logue, or The Dark Knight without The Joker. These movies simply wouldn’t be the same without these well-crafted secondary characters. LA based story editor and script consultant, Ruth Atkinson, will use examples of secondary characters from recent films to illustrate the five archetypes and the corresponding elements needed to craft the kind of unique, three dimensional characters that elevate your story and feel anything but minor. ($39.99 value)

Creating Strong Female Characters (OnDemand Webinar) The OnDemand webinar is designed to help writers of all levels re-examine their own perspective of male-female relationships, gender-specific characteristics, and women’s roles in both society and literature/film. You will leave the webinar with a better understanding of why this is such a complicated issue, how to sort through those complexities and a check list of characteristics of a strong/complex/layered characters (male or female!). ($39.99 value)

How To Develop A Psychological Backstory For Your Characters (OnDemand Webinar) This webinar is presented to you by Dr. Donna Dannenfelser, psychotherapist, producer, writer and script consultant. Find and identify the best character flaws enabling your characters to jump off the page and onto the screen. Learn from a psychotherapist turned writer the fundamental elements of developing character flaws, where they originate, how they manifest, and how best to incorporate them in your script to produce legitimate conflict among your characters. ($39.99 value)

Develop an Original Core Wound for Your Protagonist (OnDemand Webinar) Learn the single greatest secret scriptwriter Peter Russell discovered for creating the kind of great character that made stories like SNOWFALL BILLIONS, and CALL ME BY YOUR NAME so successful. Using sharp, vivid exercises, Peter walks you through how to develop your own characters, so they really sing. These are the ways Peter himself created the characters of Law and Jack Johnson who are at the center of the two television pilots Peter sold in 2018. You can learn how to do it, too. ($39.99 value)

Plotting Your Way to a Compelling Screenplay (OnDemand Webinar) While the elements of story (plot, storyline, character arcs, story arcs, and good dialogue are also shared in creating a work of fiction, there are a couple of fundamental differences in the process of writing for the screen.”  One major difference is the use of exposition to drive a plot forward. Learn the relationship between plot, story and character, how character creates plot and more. ($39.99 value)

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