This (remote & asynchronous) class is about developing all sorts of characters but does so through an examination of the most fun kind--villains!
It's about how to create complexity in characters--sometimes building it (counterintuitively) through flatness, sometimes through the opposite. And we also get to do some deep thinking about the nature of evil and what it can mean to empathize with those we also abhor. It's one of my favorites!
Starts Mar. 15.
And you know, when characters are not V-illains, but just regular people who make harmful choices, it's really interesting to think about what sort of value system they have and how/whether they messed up according to that system, especially if it's not the same value system as another character--or the reader. Sometimes moral frameworks clash in ways that are very generative for stories.
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Right? And maybe as the reader I sort of agree with both. And the situation is still impossible.
I wonder if that's a way to turn the reader's attention to bigger problems, to systemic issues. I don't know though! I have to think more about it.
Allison Wyss
M.C. Benner Dixon