Creating a character for your story-be it a short story, screenplay, novel, or other writing-is never an easy task. Characters have multiple dimensions, just like any person you interact with every day. Understanding the different dimensions of your characters can be a difficult task; how do you know someone who doesn't exist? How do you give a fictional person a real personality/ Oftentimes, writing resources will suggest creating a character profile for the people of your creative works, which are little more than dossiers of the most basic elements of these newly created persons. Yet there are other ways to make your character really come to life. Here are just a few suggestions!
- Creating a resume for your character may give you great insights into their nature!
- "Find out" what kind of music your character(s) listen to.
- Use these tools both to develop individual and, through them, understand secondary characters.
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R J Keeble
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08/14/2009
Fantastic tips on really building up characters. This really helped me design some of my character's personality for a novel I'm writing. Excellent job, 5-star.
Thanks all for your comments!
These are great ideas for creating layered characters. Well done!
Great tips, thank you!
Good strategies, Khara. Better yet, great tips! Characters need all the help they can get.
WOW! Great article! I love the ideas, I am currently working on a novel and was having some trouble with my characters. I am going to bookmark this article and use the ideas. Keep up the great work!!! 5/5
Excellent article!!!
Thanks! :)
Very nicely done! I felt as if you were sharing this just with me, sharing good conversation and a cup of coffee. Advice well taken. Thank you.
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