April 21, 2006, Newsletter Issue #76: Character Development Offscreen

Tip of the Week

Work on your characters before you even start to fill out your story. Your characters should be comprehensive and multi-level. Develop your character´s offscreen personality and life. Write about his or her childhood. Fill in the blanks about the friends and family that the audience will never see. Write a page or two about the character´s dreams and hopes, nightmares and demons, or day-to-day thoughts. This character development will help you decide what the characters should do or say when you go to write the screenplay, and it will make your audience believe in the characters.

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