In twenty-seven minutes (or your money back), you will read:

• 0. Preramble: What characterisation (and character arcs) mean;
• 1. Characterisation as… Structural Analysis: Walking across to the anthropologists’ aisle, to see what we can learn;
  • 1½. *I move away from the keyboard to let Future Me edit*: Applying structural analysis in the classroom;
• 2. Characterisation as… Discovery: Fuck planning and shit – characters are vibes, baby;
• 3. Characterisation as… Meaningful Choices: OK, but how are you gonna make them different from everyone else?
  • 3.1 Dialogue and Its Functions: Dialogue reveals change;
  • 3.2 Changing the Font?: Exploring a Pratchettism in Jingo;
  • 3.3 Point of View and Narration: Narrators have more to do with characterisation than you think;
  • 3.4 Body Language and Actions: “What can the body say that speech would otherwise diminish?”
  • 3.5 Thoughts: Keep it to yourself;
  • 3.6 Appearances: I said, keep it to yourself;
  • 3.7 The Other and Schismogenesis: Why look for the Other in the exotic? What’s stopping you from starting closer to home?

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