From the course: Crafting Dynamic Characters

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Instructor jam: Wounds

Instructor jam: Wounds

From the course: Crafting Dynamic Characters

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Instructor jam: Wounds

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- [Mary] All right. So we are back to talk about our character wounds. - Yes! So I'll just remind everyone of my character first. So I, Azalea is a life coach with insomnia. And she has this problem; she voids talking to her brother and maybe a long string of failed relationships, not sure. So, wounds. So I started with the, the nightmares, the insomnia. I was like, okay, why does she have insomnia? What's keeping her up at night? So that got me to the idea of brains of the nightmares, perhaps something in her past that she's kind of trying to get over. And I was thinking about the events that caused these wounds. And I just came up with this idea which I loved and I sort of ran with was that she actually survived a cult when she was a teenager that she was in with her brother. And I thought maybe her and her brother are the only ones who survived the cults. And her mother... I know I got really…

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