In this video, I walk through two transformation paths your character can take: from bad to good, or from good to bad. I use concrete examples so you can see exactly how these arcs work and experiment with them yourself. Both paths are powerful—what matters is that the change feels satisfying and earned.
In the category of character transformations that relate to change of belief, perception, or behavior, what are some examples?
Well, let’s say that you have a man who is a con artist, and then he gets caught by the police and is reformed and devotes the rest of his life to helping the police, to helping them understand criminality of this kind of Another example, a man is cynical, jaded.He believes that everybody’s got an angle. And by the end of your story, he is transformed, and he now believes in the goodness of humankind. These follow a similar arc, where we start bad and end up good. You could also have someone who starts out good, whether they’re naive or gullible, or just genuinely innocent. And something happens, and they decide, you know what?
I’m going to be that person with the angle. I’m going to be the person who’s getting one over on other people the way it was done for me, to me, for so long. It can go either way.
It all works, as long as there is that satisfying sense of rightness, fitting, and that it is, in fact, a major transformation.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject, how you handle transformations.
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