On Character

• The following is a good 10-minute v-cast from the Scottish Book Trust on character creation. It recommends beginning your character with 1) talent, 2) an ambition and 3) a secret, 4) a confidant, 5) a enemy.
  
  
  
  
• Author Debbie Lee Wesselmann provides a few straightforward reminders about character (including that it is worthwhile to embrace contradictions).
  
  
• Open University has an article discussing methods of portraying character, which includes some concrete examples (literary) authors have used to display character.

MY TAKEAWAY: My characters must make decisive, and distinctive, choices, not just about the big things but also about the little things. Even the things that take place off-camera (the items they possess, the car they drive, the way they decorate their house) should reflect an active, and distinctive, choice.