Psychological Fiction Specialization: Crafting Complex Narratives

Overview

“You will return to the interior of your character to register what moves him, what he wants, how his past defines him, what shows and what he hides, what ideas govern him, what other characters he resembles. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: The inner life of character 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Psychological Fiction Specialization: Crafting Complex Narratives. Explore psychological fiction, create multidimensional characters, craft suspenseful plots, and master horror, thriller, and speculative fiction genres.

Partial transcription of the video

“The Character’s Inner Life In the previous lesson, we came up with several elements and took notes on Consuelo’s outer life. Now we’re ready to move on to her inner life. We already said that in real life, we get to know people from the outside in. It’s not that you can't start with the character’s inner life, but what often happens is we force it. If we start to think about what moves them and what’s behind everything they do, sometimes we force them to do those things. That's why I prefer to work in the opposite direction. We've done that already, so now we have enough elements to move on...”

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Course summary for: Psychological Fiction Specialization: Crafting Complex Narratives

• Level: Beginner
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• 37 students
• 6 units
• 78 lessons (13h 16m)
• 31 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing