Writing Strong Characters

Strong characters are the heart of your screenplay or novel. You definitely need a great plot, but part of the reason a story is intriguing is based on WHO it’s happening to.

It should go without saying that you could have the best plot or concept, but if your characters are uninteresting then you’re dead in the water. Weak characters will expose themselves in your story way before a weak plot. Both failures will have a reader or audience member ready to fall asleep, but let’s address one thing at a time.

Today we’re going to focus on one thing: writing characters that don’t suck.

Your characters should have at least these three things:

A goal A strong antagonist Universal qualities

There are PLENTY of other things you could include in order to make a strong character, but we will just focus on these three for now. If you’d rather watch this be explained with more visuals check out the video below…