Step 1: What Makes a Passionate Character

Here we will outline steps to creating a driven character that will have readers turning pages.

Introduction to the Provo Series on Creating Compelling Characters

Since ancient Athens, and the book Poetics by the philosopher Aristotle, creative writers have had access to a number of implements to create interesting, compelling characters. This series of talks is designed to give the reader the awareness and skill to create great stories, and we start this series with this talk that focuses on character development. The key is having and developing a motivation for the character, something he or she vitally wants or wants to avoid.   This drives the character’s action, and creates conflict, or tension, between characters in a story.  Handled correctly, such a set-up drives the plot forward and propels the narrative, capturing and holding the attention of the audience.  Handled incorrectly, you have a good start on a comedy.

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