Writing Morally Ambiguous Characters | Writing Tips

Let's chat about writing moral ambiguity! Anti-heroes, morally grey characters, problematic favs, and all that messy wonderful stuff.

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MY SHORT FICTION:
☾"I Will Never Tell You This" in The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/never-tel...
☾"Solarium" in Minola Review: http://www.minolareview.com/shaelin-b...
☾"Barefoot" in The Fiddlehead [print only]: https://thefiddlehead.ca/issue/282
☾"Wishbone" in PRISM international [print only]: http://prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/19/pr...
☾"Wishbone" video reading: https://vimeo.com/420052282
☾"Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden" in The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/cherry-an...

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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