According to Egri, character can be defined as comprising three dimensions: physiology, sociology, and psychology. Developing these three aspects of a character will take you a very long way toward understanding the full composition of each of the characters that must populate a story. Remember, stories are always about people in conflict, usually with other people. Knowing your characters inside and out, backward and forward, is essential for exposing all the quirks, nuances, oddities, strengths, weaknesses, etc., necessary to have well rounded, three-dimensional “humans,” even fictional
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