Flights of Foundry 2021

Creating believable and emotionally resonant characters is every writer's challenge. How do characters drive the plot, and how are they driven by it? How do we set appropriate stakes for characters and make them matter--whether those stakes are saving the world or baking a birthday cake? Additional constraints come into play too when writers are handling characters who are the intellectual property of other outfits. Let's talk about the intersection of character and plot where we find the stories that mean the most to us.