CWG: ‘Strong’ Characters

There’s a lot of advice around about how strong characters are better and should be in your story. There’s a lot of advice available about how to make your characters strong. But what does that mean? What is a ‘strong’ character and why are they good?

The truth is that there are many different answers to those questions, and it depends a lot on what you’re writing and what you’re trying to achieve.

The Creative Writing Group took on this topic and explored the different aspects of how and why we might use ‘strong’ characters, and what the push for ‘strong female characters’ means.

/writer/audio/CWG-2016-04-15.mp3

Note: discussion includes adult material, themes, and language.

Share