Tag Archive | character development
You Need To Try This Guaranteed Method of Creating Depth In Your Writing
Originally posted on Sacha Black:
One of my favourite quotes is a juxtaposition, pitting perfection against failure. “I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.” Yohji Yamamoto There are a million juxtapositions I could have used as examples, even ones as simple as: light…
Want The Perfect Hero? Don’t Make These 2 Mistakes
Originally posted on Sacha Black:
Everybody wants to create the perfect hero. I know I do. But creating the perfect hero means more than just perfection. It means imperfection. I like examples, I like learning from examples and I just happen to have read another book (Independent Study (The Testing Trilogy Book 2)), so I…
Realism in Character Development and Storytelling
Originally posted on The One & Only Elgon:
Way back somewhere and some-when I had a teacher named Kristin, though I didn’t call her by her first name until a few years later. We didn’t hit it off well, but after nearly four full school years of fairly close association, whether she was my English…
Writing Tips: Character Beyond the Internal
Originally posted on ronovanwrites:
We’ve come to Part 5 of the Character series. To date: Part 1: Creating Character Names Part 2: What to Avoid when Creating Character Part 3: Giving Your Characters Their Character Part 4: Creating Believable Characters ? So far these have been specifically internal or cosmetic developments of character, name being…
Writing Tips: Creating Believable Characters
Originally posted on ronovanwrites:
Here is Part 4 of the Character series I’ve been doing. We’ve had: Creating Character Names What to Avoid when Creating Character Giving Your Characters Their Character ? Now . . . let’s Make Believe (able) Characters. ? ? #1 Stay within Character Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird was…
Writing Tips: Giving Your Characters Their Character
Originally posted on ronovanwrites:
This is the third installment of creating characters. First it was Creating Character Names which is more involved than slapping some random guy’s handle on a person. Then we talked about What to Avoid when Creating Characters. Now that you have your character ideas and names, it’s time to develop the…
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