Kira-Anne Pelican

Writer, Educator and Script Consultant, London

Kira-Anne Pelican, PhD is a writer, educator and script consultant, specialising in helping writers develop more compelling films and TV series through insights from evidence-based psychology. She is the author of The Science of Writing Characters (2020). She lives in London.

Written by Kira-Anne Pelican

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How to create compelling characters

It’s not only writer’s intuition. Use personality psychology to create just the right blend of surprise and believability

by Kira-Anne Pelican