Karim discusses his work as a writer in various genres and their process of crafting a new story using various techniques. He instructs how to choose metaphor to illustrate a story, as well as the overlap between the personal and the political. Finally, he encourages us to consider the character's relationships and how these and characters psychological lives carry the most rich information for storytelling.

Suzanne discusses her work as a fiction writer and how to use fragmentation to link a character's present moment to past moments and memories. She explores fragmentation examples from Marguerite Duras, Toni Morrison, and Lynn Freed, and how fragmentation can make the character's narrative more realistic. Finally, she explains some challenges when using fragmentation, and building a cohesive story with this style.

Margot discusses her work as a fiction writer and how to utilize both "flat" and "round" characters in our stories. She also discusses how to appropriately utilize our natural voice while writing, and also the importance of returning to our main characters to learn new things about them later in the story.

Bernice discusses her work as a fiction writer and teacher and how to enter into the parts of the story that communicate, both animate and inanimate, and how to learn about their unique voices. She brainstorms a series of questions that we can ask our characters to learn more about them.

Douglas discusses his work as a fiction writer and some of the difficulties of writing characters who are similar to ourselves and making these characters fully human. He goes on to think more about the complex and darker sides of our characters as important parts of their development in the story.