Jim Hull's Story Fanatic

This is Story Fanatic, a collection of articles covering story structure and analysis for
creative writers. Published weekly.

Wednesday, Jun. 16

Creating an Iconic Character

Screenwriter Neil Landau:

The first essential element in writing a screenplay is creating an iconic character. Think of a memorable movie, and it’s bound to have a memorable character at its center. That character isn’t perfect – those who contain a paradox and have good and bad sides are most human and interesting.

Every complete story is about one character.