Chapter 4Character development
Figure 4.1 Jacob Redmon–Defining characters by design and purpose. Just because you have two leads does not mean you have two protagonists.
Character credits: Samuel Spade (The Maltese Falcon, Warner Brothers); Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner (Pirates of the Caribbean, Walt Disney Studios); Roger Murtaugh and Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon, Warner Brothers); Dan Evans and Ben Wade (3:10 to Yuma, Lionsgate)
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
–Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Now that you have your premise and the genre ...
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