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"The most important part of writing a character is that your character has the spark of life to them and that that translates onto the page."
"Writing morally ambiguous characters is difficult but rewarding."
"Summer isn't a manic pixie dream girl; she's written like a real person."
"If you want me to care about Loki the god of mischief, you should be able to write some [__] mischief."
"The full potential for that character dynamic is incredible and just wasted if you write all of your characters to be straight by default."
"They just want well-written characters that are complex."
"Nobody complains about woke characters if they're good."
"Goku is still almost four decades later one of the best-written OP heroes out there."
"She's a well-written, extremely fun character first."
"He can direct a movie, he can write women characters."
"I write Wonder Woman as a new kind of propaganda to show the world what a woman could be."
"He writes morally gray complicated not good guys like no one else can."
"Writers write these characters in character and like real actual people that actually have to make tough decisions."
"Jo does not write a weak woman. He can't do it. It doesn't matter if she's Asian or white or African-American, he writes a strong woman for us to see on camera. I think that's really important."
"Don't write a strong woman, write a good character."
"Writing strong characters who are consistent might be one of the hardest parts of writing genre fiction."
"I don't need to identify with someone to be able to be entertained by them if you write a strong female character that is Well written."
"I love villains so much more than heroes if they're written well."
"Surely there are other ways to write good strong female characters."
"She's written like a person, not like a child or a cartoon."
"Naughty Dog have written some spectacular characters."
"I feel like all that stuff is important if you're writing a character from that setting however really secondary if you're writing a good character which I don't think would be a controversial take yet people still seem to hate me for saying it"
"Sari was one of the most brilliantly written characters."
"Alistair is the best written overpowered character I have seen since Sid Kagano from Eminence and Shadow."
"I don't think the existence of a female protagonist in a video game makes it 'woke'. It all comes down to how you write that character."
"No one else could write a character so utterly ridiculous and yet so badass."
"The reason there's a backlash for some of these characters is because they are poorly written characters, created with a specific agenda in mind."
"Yona is one of the strongest, best-written strong female characters I've read."
"Through Giffin and Dematteius's brilliant understanding of characters, comedy, and humanity."
"Writing her was always so fun because she was so unfettered and wild and could say whatever she wanted."
"Adventure Time is a show that thrives off of its amazing character writing."
"This film has some of the best nuances and is character writing of recent years for both animated films and just films in general."
"Varian's villain arc has even better writing than Cass’s."
"It's just beautiful the way that she's able to write her characters and the way that they interact with each other."
"The way the show handled character writing is genuinely one of the best I have ever seen."
"There are several ways to write sympathetic villains, but regardless of the method you choose, they are almost always very powerful tools."
"...Aaron by far is the best written character yeah or one of the best written characters I've ever seen."
"It's a stellar example of how to write Scrooge."
"The way they wrote Mr. Freeze in the animated series is exactly the Mr. Freeze that we should have in a live-action film."
"I strive to write characters that feel realistic and rounded and have their own internal code."
"Enough talk about men writing female characters; we need more talk about women writing male characters."
"Ellen Ripley is one of the most badass well-written characters throughout all cinematic history."
"Oda is really good at writing villain characters that you feel bad for."
"Having pre-established traits bring people into conflict is good writing."
"She felt natural; I never questioned why the super spy was on a team fighting alongside gods and monsters because she was well written."
"It's remarkable, the characters are so well written."
"When you want to write a strong female character, here's an example of how you do it: Thorin's at making Valkyrie the queen of Asgard, why? Because she's capable, she's adept, and she deserves the title."
"Believe it or not, there's actually a certain logic to writing a stupid character."
"A well-written, well-designed, likable character... those also help a great deal."
"Why wouldn't people write characters that are still being vulnerable and beautiful and brave even when they're not perfect?"
"I'm so impressed with de Maurier's ability to write characters that are nuanced yet so very layered."
"I really, really liked how much, how well he writes Ciri and her confusion about things."
"But the character writing is really good, and the direction is amazing, and the premise is at the very very least interesting."
"I'm tired of people writing female characters first instead of writing a character that just happens to be female and making a good character."
"He was far from a chauvinist, being perhaps the first director in cinema history to write female characters with assertive and stereotypically masculine personalities."
"She really knows how to write a human person, with all their little foibles but also the good things about them."
"The characters, the small writing, the personality, very good."
"I'm going to be talking about how you can make a Mary Sue character that people will actually like."
"You can't write a character like this."
"You just need good people, or not even good people, just well-written people."
"Writing character is about knowing how a character would react in a given situation."
"They write characters that not only they love but that they really would just love to have be their friends."