ShaelinWrites | Writing Morally Ambiguous Characters | Writing Tips @ShaelinWrites | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 23 minutes ago.
Let's chat about writing moral ambiguity! Anti-heroes, morally grey characters, problematic favs, and all that messy wonderful stuff.

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→ The Ultimate Guide to Tense and POV: youtube.com/watch?v=P87GYxwoQUE
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MY SHORT FICTION:
☾"I Will Never Tell You This" in The Puritan: puritan-magazine.com/never-tell-you-this
☾"Solarium" in Minola Review: minolareview.com/shaelin-bishop
☾"Barefoot" in The Fiddlehead [print only]: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/282
☾"Wishbone" in PRISM international [print only]: prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/19/prism-58-3-sprawl-is-live
☾"Wishbone" video reading: vimeo.com/420052282
☾"Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden" in The Puritan: puritan-magazine.com/cherry-and-jane-in-the-garden-of-eden

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
2:08 - Not worrying about perception
4:25 - Worldview over action
5:20 - Interesting over likeable
6:36 - Creating interesting flaws
8:57- Creating sympathy
9:53 - Using backstory
14:30 - Unreliability
15:34 - Consequence
18:07 - Testing the character
19:18 - Empathizing instead of judging

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