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[ISBW] Back to Basics: Characters
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Back to Basics
S18 Ep49
Good News Good News
- Team Rejection count: 226
- STATION ETERNITY: Library Journal Starred Review https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/station-eternity-1790821
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/)
Live Stream Bar Con After Show
- Appearances Update: WorldCon, She Podcasts, (maybe) NYCC
Links
- New! Mur on Focusmate!
Twitch schedule for week of August 8:
- 8th Monday 12pm: Ditch Diggers with Alasdair Stuart
- 9th Tuesday 3pm: I Should Be Writing
- 10th Wednesday 3pm: Gaming TBD
- 11st Thursday 3pm: I Should Be Writing, interview with Valerie Valdes
- 11th Thursday 8pm: Arsenic and Old Dice, A Brindlewood Bay Livestream

- Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders Book 1), Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!
- OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!