These are the notes I wrote up for my panel on "character-driven writing" last weekend at Midwest FurFest. I had a lot of ideas and I ended up with a nice long document. I suspected I wouldn't be able to cover all the material and I did only get about two-thirds of the way through it. I wanted to post the notes here so people could see them if they were interested.

I think there's some good information in here. I tried to keep the tone conversational though and not make it too overwhelming like a college lecture. I cover how characters work with setting and plot to create compelling stories. I referenced a lot of different sources of what I considered good character drama, from stories, books and podcasts to movies and TV shows. I received a couple of nice complements on it, so I think the notes and the panel came out pretty good.

I submitted the file in PDF format, to preserve the page formatting, and I think that's a little more portable and universal than MS word.