{"id":4102,"date":"2012-01-16T18:38:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T16:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2012-01-16T18:38:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T16:38:59","slug":"consejos-al-dia-dia-1-personajes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/2012\/01\/16\/consejos-al-dia-dia-1-personajes\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with tips, day 1: Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since our last compilation of Screenwriting Tips, and pay attention because they’ve moved to a new address<\/a>! This week we’re going to catch up. As there are so many good tips, we’ll divide them by topic. Today: CHARACTERS.<\/p>\n

873: What does the love interest offer the protagonist? What does he or she provide which is currently missing from the protagonist\u2019s life? If your answer is \u201ca relationship\u201d, it\u2019s time to dig deeper and find the real answer.<\/p>\n

868: Your protagonist should probably not be an idealized version of yourself. And if they are, at least give them your flaws as well.<\/p>\n

836: Consider making the \u2018funny best friend\u2019 character into the protagonist. You clearly prefer writing in her voice, because she\u2019s in every scene and she seems to have more lines than the lead.<\/p>\n

813: Characters can\u2019t just be pushed around by plot. Early in your script, prove to us that your protagonist has agency of her own by letting her make an unexpected decision.<\/p>\n

789: When writing conversations between old friends, cut dialogue to the bone. They have their own in-jokes; they know what the other is going to say. When they fight, remember it\u2019s not the first time they\u2019ve ever fought.<\/p>\n

788: Suicidal characters aren\u2019t automatically sympathetic. In fact, it takes a lot of work to elevate them above annoying. Wanting to die just isn\u2019t a narrative-friendly goal.<\/p>\n

780: Try to give every character \u2014 even villains and sidekicks \u2014 a chance for the audience to love them. Just one line or one moment for them to be exactly who they are, without apology.<\/p>\n

749: When you introduce a new character, have them moving, acting, striving towards a goal in their very first scene. Show us that character in high gear. If you start them off in neutral, it\u2019s much harder to get a sense of who they are.<\/p>\n

739: \u201cHe\u2019s got nothing left to lose\u201d is pretty meaningless as a description of character. Doubly so when you misspell it as \u201cloose\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what do you think?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since our last compilation of Screenwriting Tips, and pay attention because they’ve moved to a new address! This week we’re going to catch up. As there are so many good tips, we’ll divide them by topic. Today: CHARACTERS. 873: What does the love interest offer the protagonist? What does he or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[44,48],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taller-literario","tag-guion","tag-internet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}