Characters and viewpoint

Inventing characters: What makes a good fictional character?

Where do characters come from?

Making decisions

Constructing characters: What kind of story are you telling?

Hierarchy

How to raise the emotional stakes

What should we feel about the character?

Hero and the common man

Comic character: controlled disbelief

Serious character: make us believe

Transformations

Voices

Presentation vs. representation

Dramatic vs. narrative

First-person narrative

Third person

A private population explosion.