Character Map

#ThinkpieceThursday – The Emotional vs The Spiritual

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#WritingAdviceWednesday – The Character Map: Fear

#WritingAdviceWednesday – Fear is a Writer’s friend

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My Day at Pixar

I spent an amazing day at Pixar on Tuesday. I was doing a Character Map session with some of their writers, artists, directors and others. It’s easy to spot people coming to Pixar for the first time. They’re the ones, like me, walking around trying to soak in all the wonderful visuals in the building and snapping pictures like mad. Here are some of mine–

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Are You Living a Default Future?

Here’s how to spot old attitudes, emotions, behavior patters and actions that sabotage you and a great exercise to clear you mind for successful writing.

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Map Yourself

A good writer thoroughly understands his or her characters’ emotions, inner conflicts and the whole process of internal transformation. Great writers dig deep to find this emotional truth within themselves.

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The Character Map

What Is A Character Map?
The Character Map is a proven way to develop characters that have a rich compelling emotional journey and a dynamic set of internal and external personal conflicts. Use this tool to create characters that leap off the page in your screenplay or teleplay. Great screenwriting begins with great characters. Great characters with a compelling emotional journey make your script truly memorable.

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The Queen – Power of Conscience

The Queen, written by Peter Morgan, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen, is a pitch perfect Power of Conscience character study.

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