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Be smart by watching my video on writing smart characters! From scientists, professors, to even mad scientists, writers need not fear having to appear smart. In fact, smug ego will more than cover for that. The rest is just cheap tricks. Why write smart when you can outsmart your audience instead?

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro to Smart Characters
01:05 You don't need to be smart to write smart
02:04 Telling rather than showing
03:05 Use big words
04:02 Technobabble
04:46 Exposition puppets
06:05 Doing actual research
07:43 Mad Science!
09:05 Reed Richards is useless and Doctor Doom isn't much better
09:50 Eccentric intelligent characters
10:35 Smart characters that cheat the plot
11:00 So "smart" yet the villains are always ahead
11:34 Forget to write a character
12:04 Sponsorship Wars
15:07 Outro

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Music: "Quirky Dog", "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys", and "Son of a Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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