The step-by-step course for fiction authors who are ready to finally create unforgettable characters that hook readers hard and keep them turning pages late into the night.
No vague craft advice. No pointless character questionnaires. No headaches. No stalling out.
What You Will Learn:
How to avoid mistakes most authors make when crafting characters so that your characters stand out
How to craft your protagonist's deep psychological wound without months of research and headaches.
How to make your protagonist just off the page by creating a limiting belief, which determines every action, reaction, and choice they make throughout the story.
How to give your readers a POWERFUL cathartic experience by crafting a reflection and transformation moment that changes everything for your protagonist.
How to make any character distinctive and quirky so they stick in your reader's heart and mind forever.
Who is This For?
Because this process is based on real human psychology and transformation, it is universal and applies to any genre, sub-genre, and tropes. Here's a list of writers who have snagged and experienced success with this process:
Novel-Writers
Short Story Writers
Creative Writers
Screen Writers
Audio Storytellers
My Characters were BORING. But then I started getting reviews like these.
Here's what I changed.
I stopped using plot-focused templates and useless character questionnaires that had hundreds of details completely irrelevant to my story and character transformation.
And I started making my characters both emotionally compelling and psychologically complex by:
Giving them a character wound — makes them complex, dynamic, and endlessly relatable to readers.
Deducing their logical limiting belief — will inform their actions, reactions and choices throughout the story, making them feel very realistic and 3D.
Crafting a deep, emotional transformation for them that will guide the reader toward a powerful emotional experience, which is why they read fiction in the first place.
Student Wins:
"Okay, I just finished watching the internal character arc videos, and WOW! Mind blown.
If you are struggling with your plot, take [Liesel's] advice."
- Joy Gamet, Author
"I had no plans at the start of this course and I now feel like I have enough to get started. Thank you, Liesel Hill, for this wonderful training."
- Erica Haraldsen, Author
"Journalling really helps you reach your subconscious and is liberating. I love delving into my characters' inner feelings, wants, and needs; it's fascinating."
- Carol Blagden, Author
What You Get
Here's how this secret protagonist process will help you write unforgettable characters:
The Vault Includes:
Bite-sized lessons: My proprietary process for creating characters that readers salivate over, without endless character questionnaires or craft books. ($297 value)
AI Piece: I'll show you how to ethically use AI for research and knowledge so you can create emotional depth for your protagonist on the page. This bonus will save you hours of research and give you surprising emotional insight into your character. ($197 value)
Real Story Examples: See how the most successful films and books in the world handle these concepts so you can learn from their genius and implement it for your own story. ($77 value)
Craft Highly Emotional Character worksheets and journal prompts. The exact process I use to create every single one of my protagonists. ($97 value)
REGULAR PRICE: $598.00
TODAY'S PRICE: $44
It shouldn't take you weeks, months, or years and innumerable headaches to create compelling, realistic protagonists.
You should have a simple, step-by-step process you can sit down and follow anytime you want to create a new character or tell a new story.
The problem? You've been taught to write fiction in a way that stifles your natural creativity and actually takes much longer to finish a novel.
>>>Use traditional, plot-based templates like The Hero's Journey (doesn't address the internal arc of the character or tap into your unique, subconscious creativity).
>>>Force your story into or out of various fiction templates (uses the conscious mind and doesn't tap into your unique, subconscious creativity).
>>>Read all the craft books and free online writing advice (sends you down rabbit holes that makes your head spin, gives you a few good nuggets, but at the end of the day doesn't help you finish your story).
>>>Just keep writing until you get it right. (This is great advice! IF you want to take years, hundreds of thousands of words, and dozens of throw-away, amateur sounding manuscripts before you "get it right.")
I’m Liesel
Unlike writing coaches who give you vague, regurgitated writing advice and tell you to just “go do it,” after 15+ years publishing, and 20 books published in 4 genres, I know what universally works for storytelling.
I focus on the thing that TRULY hooks the reader (emotion) and step by step, tactical processes that will help you actually channel your story out of your subconscious mind and onto the page.
4 Truths I live by:
1) Emotion is king in storytelling. Any problem, drawback, or struggle you’re having in writing and finishing your story comes back to emotion. Or the lack of it.
2) Write from your unique subconscious creativity. Always. Not only will this make anything and everything you write uniquely yours, but it will make the process of getting your story onto the page so. Much. Easier.
3) Accountability is ESSENTIAL for building sustainable writing habits. The sooner you understand this, the easier your writing life will be.
4) Traumas and limiting beliefs may be blocking you. Energetics is a real part of human life, and must be taken into account when trying to accomplish any goal.
