Characters are like fruit trees. They have their own beauty and their own evil. Interesting characters have a diverse personality, with depth and memories. They cannot be too good or too bad. Balance, again, is key. So here's a list of the basics, to try and make it a bit easier. 1) Know where your character comes from. The background to ANY person is what makes them who they are. Remember throughout all of this, you need to make them realistic and believable. So give them dark pasts or happy backgrounds, parents who are no longer together and parents who are still happily married. Do they have bossy siblings they despise or look up to?
2) PERSONALITY The most obvious, and some would say, the most important of all in creating interesting characters is WHAT THEY ARE LIKE as a person. Think about what she/he does and also why she/he does that. Is she quite straightforward , and is that because of her uptight family? What quirks does she/he have? List their bad and good qualities. That is important.
3) Secrets are interesting. Giving your character a secret makes them more intriguing for the reader, and also more life-like. This obviously just a suggestion, but ask yourself this: Are you not more inclined to read about a character with a secret than one you know everything about?
These are just a few suggestion, please comment if you would like to hear more. To finish, I'd like to quote Google (yes, google!) : "It takes skill and insight to breathe life into stock characters, something too often dismissed by those who disdain genre fiction as inferior."
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Interesting characters have a diverse personality, with depth and memories. They cannot be too good or too bad. Balance, again, is key. So here's a list of the basics, to try and make it a bit easier.
1) Know where your character comes from.
The background to ANY person is what makes them who they are. Remember throughout all of this, you need to make them realistic and believable. So give them dark pasts or happy backgrounds, parents who are no longer together and parents who are still happily married. Do they have bossy siblings they despise or look up to?
2) PERSONALITY
The most obvious, and some would say, the most important of all in creating interesting characters is WHAT THEY ARE LIKE as a person. Think about what she/he does and also why she/he does that. Is she quite straightforward , and is that because of her uptight family? What quirks does she/he have? List their bad and good qualities. That is important.
3) Secrets are interesting.
Giving your character a secret makes them more intriguing for the reader, and also more life-like. This obviously just a suggestion, but ask yourself this: Are you not more inclined to read about a character with a secret than one you know everything about?
These are just a few suggestion, please comment if you would like to hear more. To finish, I'd like to quote Google (yes, google!) : "It takes skill and insight to breathe life into stock characters, something too often dismissed by those who disdain genre fiction as inferior."
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