Contradictions Are The Secret To Writing Complex Characters - Jonathan Blum
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In this Film Courage video interview, Author/Instructor Jonathan Blum emphasizes the complexity of humans, dismissing the notion of simplicity. He suggests exercises for writers to develop lifelike characters, emphasizing the need to build from scratch and gradually reveal facets. Blum compares characters to thousand-sided objects, explaining that while not all characteristics can be conveyed, readers can infer and imagine the rest. He advocates exploring a character's mystery through techniques like writing their life story and asking probing questions.
Jonathan Blum grew up in Miami and graduated from UCLA and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of two books of fiction: The Usual Uncertainties (Rescue Press, 2019), a story collection, and Last Word (Rescue Press, 2013), a novella. Both were named one of the best books of the year by Iowa Public Radio, and The Usual Uncertainties was named one of the 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2019 by Electric Literature. Blum has twice appeared on KCRW's Bookworm. His short stories have been published in Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Northwest Review, Playboy, and Shanxi Literature, among others. His short story, "The White Spot," which was published in Electric Literature with an introduction by Deborah Eisenberg, appears in the award-winning anthology The Best Peace Fiction (University of New Mexico Press, 2021). He has taught fiction writing at The University of Iowa, Drew University, and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and is the recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, a Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland, and a grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. He has also been a guest writer at the Tianjin Binhai New Area International Writing Program in China. He lives in Los Angeles.
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In this Film Courage video interview, Author/Instructor Jonathan Blum emphasizes the complexity of humans, dismissing the notion of simplicity. He suggests exercises for writers to develop lifelike characters, emphasizing the need to build from scratch and gradually reveal facets. Blum compares characters to thousand-sided objects, explaining that while not all characteristics can be conveyed, readers can infer and imagine the rest. He advocates exploring a character's mystery through techniques like writing their life story and asking probing questions.
Jonathan Blum grew up in Miami and graduated from UCLA and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of two books of fiction: The Usual Uncertainties (Rescue Press, 2019), a story collection, and Last Word (Rescue Press, 2013), a novella. Both were named one of the best books of the year by Iowa Public Radio, and The Usual Uncertainties was named one of the 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2019 by Electric Literature. Blum has twice appeared on KCRW's Bookworm. His short stories have been published in Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Northwest Review, Playboy, and Shanxi Literature, among others. His short story, "The White Spot," which was published in Electric Literature with an introduction by Deborah Eisenberg, appears in the award-winning anthology The Best Peace Fiction (University of New Mexico Press, 2021). He has taught fiction writing at The University of Iowa, Drew University, and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and is the recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, a Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland, and a grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. He has also been a guest writer at the Tianjin Binhai New Area International Writing Program in China. He lives in Los Angeles.
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VIEWERS ALSO WATCHED
3 Ways To Open A Story - https://youtu.be/3no2un4Elik
How To Write Complex Characters: Overview Of The Enneagram - https://youtu.be/nFGInL05ivc
Worst Thing A Writer Can Do To Their Main Character - https://youtu.be/0PPljsaJYbY
Every Character You Write Starts At Zero - https://youtu.be/UhVcxOl9_8k
Every Great Story Has A Main Character That Goes Through 4 Archetypes - https://youtu.be/RDZMNRwcy9I
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Rode VideoMic Pro - The Rode mic helps us capture our backup audio. It also helps us sync up our audio in post https://amzn.to/425k5rG
Audio Recorder - If we had to do it all over again, this is probably the first item we would have bought - https://amzn.to/3WEuz0k
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