Characters can be fun to create. You want your heroes to be heroic and your villains to be villainous. Right? Of course. In the real world, though, no one is all good or all bad. Humans are a mixture of…
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Creating Believable Characters
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Your Character-s Morning Routine
One good way to get a handle on your characters is to figure out how they start their days. Sit down and come up with a morning routine for each of them. It can help you to bring them alive.…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Make Your Characters A Little Weak
Good character development means making your characters as believable as possible. To do that you need a mix of characteristics and traits. Make your characters beautiful and vain, homely and giving, beautiful and unassuming, ugly and evil, lovely and evil,…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Using An App to Create Characters
There are no shortcuts in writing, but there are some jump starters. For writing itself there are prompts to catapult you into a piece. There are character development apps to help get you started with characters. These apps ask you…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Your Character’s Health
Everyone has health, good or bad. Giving your character health concerns will make them more real to the reader. Unless your character is a whining hypochondriac, just mentioning their overall health now and then is sufficient. The trick is not…
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Posted in Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
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