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Neil Chase

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Neil Chase is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, actor, and story coach with extensive experience in a variety of genres, including action, sci-fi, drama, horror, and comedy. Neil has won over 90 international writing awards, including from American Fiction Awards, Script Summit, Las Vegas Film Festival, FilmQuest, A Night of Horror Film Festival, Screamfest, West Field Screenwriting Awards, and Cinequest, among many others. He is most proud of winning the FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards Grand Prize, the Neoverse Writing Competition Grand Prize, two Global eBook Awards Gold Medals, and the Arthur Rosenfeld Award for Excellence in Dramatic Writing. Neil is also featured in the book, "The Top 100 Indie Writers in the World ...more

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Character Contradiction in Screenwriting: How to Write Characters With Real Depth

A lot of weak characters have the same problem: they are too simple.

The hero is brave. The villain is evil. The mentor is wise. The rebel hates rules.

That may be enough to get a story moving, but it rarely gives a character life. On the page, those people can feel more like placeholders than humans. We understand what role they serve, but we don’t feel connected to them.

That is where the principle

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Neil Chase wrote a new blog post Character Contradiction in Screenwriting: How to Write Characters With Real Depth A lot of weak characters have the same problem: they are too simple.The hero is brave. The villain is evil. The mentor is wise. The rebel hates rules. Read more of this blog post »
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