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The Character Problem

Rebecca Pickens delivers a craft-focused exploration of how to create emotionally complex characters with contradiction, interiority, blind spots, and competing desires across fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction.

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Speaker: Rebecca Pickens

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Rebecca Pickens delivers a craft-focused exploration of how to create emotionally complex characters with contradiction, interiority, blind spots, and competing desires across fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction.

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ABOUT THIS LECTURE

This lecture is for physicians and healthcare professionals who want to write fiction, memoir, or narrative nonfiction with deeper, more emotionally complex characters. It is especially valuable for writers who are comfortable observing people professionally but want to better understand how character functions on the page.

Participants will learn how to:

•Build characters with emotional depth, contradiction, and interiority
•Identify the gap between how characters see themselves and who they actually are
•Develop character desires, blind spots, defenses, and internal conflicts
•Avoid writing characters who feel overly explained, symbolic, or psychologically flattened
•Use dialogue, behavior, and subtext to reveal character organically
•Create characters readers feel curious about rather than simply informed about

Craft-focused and example-driven, this lecture examines what makes fictional people feel genuinely alive on the page and why character remains one of the most difficult and essential elements of compelling writing.

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Rebecca Pickens

Rebecca Pickens

I help fiction and nonfiction writers start, finish, and get their stories out into the world.

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