Eric Edson - WRITING CHARACTER GROWTH

I’ve read and studied John Truby’s books, Syd Field’s books, Blake Snyder’s books, Steven King’s non-fiction books on writing, John Gardner’s books, and many others and I’ve learned many valuable things from them but I have to say that this video presents in such a clear, concise, understandable and RELATEABLE way that I am actually back to writing! The stall is gone! The doubt is gone! Everything just clicked while I was watching this video. I’m going to order your book immediately. Words are wonderful but they can’t express my gratitude for this video. But I’ll say it anyway, Thank you so much!

I’m so grateful for this channel and Eric Edson’s teachinga. The HGS structure is helping me leave writers block behind forever. I never get stuck anymore since I learned this method. Simply brilliant! Thank you!

Eric Edson has just become my virtual mentor 👍🏻

One of the best Character Arc lectures I have seen. Slow start but stay with it - you will be rewarded!

Eric Edson is such a great instructor. He is clear and carefully selects examples. The other videos I've seen of him always show him kind toward what people don't know or what movies they've not yet seen.

I laughed at how true this stuff is. What a wonderful speaker and lecture.

"In order to find true love you must first truly love yourself!" Damn! That quote always hits me in the gut whether I'm hearing it from a love song or a movie scene as it hits to the very core of my solitary lifestyle and avoidant personality disorder especially around pretty females (particularly if they are interested in me). Coming from a background of family and school abuse it's been a silent painful struggle of daily existence of me always waiting for the next bad thing to happen since I grew up with deep insecurity and dread of punishment for the slightest infraction. But within the context of this discussion I know that pain will make for deep emotional writing as I put the pain of my past into my character through whatever problem he or she is struggling with and that's how I will engage readers to want to see my work (scripts) and be moved to talk about it (and I may even inspire fans of my work to push beyond their own life stresses in the process). LOL! =)

He's a truly great instructor. But i love how his character capitulates to john truby-another great-at end. Priceless.

Best Character Arc lectures.... Very informative and eye opening. Sounds like an experienced lecturer, with true insight into great screenwriting. Thank you for this

Amazing lectures, Thanks a lot

This starts off really awkwardly, but about 5 minutes in, it starts to get brilliant.

The definitive best lecture on the internet

This is great. Love that he uses the movie "collateral" as a story example. One of my favorite films by far.

amazing life advice. strangely this man is best in his chosen work.

This is the most fascinating lecture I've ever heard!!!

Very helpful and knowledgeable presentation! Thanks Eric!!

I will be the best screenplay writer in the word, thanks to Mr. Edson. 🥳

This was really helpful. Thank You for posting.

I learned a lot from Eric’s lectures!

Thank you Mr. Edson!