Part 3 of The Ultimate Cheat Sheet to Writing Stories
The Quest for Characters
First, gather together what you have so far. Your ideas, your plot, everything. Examine your plot, look at it very closely, but not so close that you can see everything inside of it. No, you want to look around inside your plot for the kind of characters it needs. If your plot is based around the zombie apocalypse, you'll want a character who is brave and strong, or one that has no choice but to stop being a shy wallflower and become a strong leader. You don't want a character for that kind of plot where he or she is never willing to stop being scared, because then people who read the book will probably not like your character and lots of characters will die because of him or her.
Now, once you decide on your main character and what you think they should be like, it's time to move onto the direct side characters, or the other main characters as some may call them. These characters are the ones the primary main character will spends most of his or her time around. Your main character will not always get along with them, in fact, your primary main character and your other main characters should not get along always, because this creates conflict and readers love conflict. Even when they get along with your main character they should not always be getting along with each other. Make sure your characters still go well with the main story idea in one way or another, this will help them fit into the story better and you won't feel like the are out of place.
You don't need to worry about creating every single tiny character in your story before you write it, just the ones you will be focusing most of your story on, such as your main characters, main side characters, antagonist, and side antagonists.
Sometimes you can find the perfect character walking down the street or maybe standing next to you in line somewhere. Always keep your eyes out because you never know what kind of character might come waltzing in your life without warning. Maybe your perfect character is hiding out in your yearbook. What you can do is take your yearbook and take random people and try to say what you think they would act like, what their personality would be like, how they do things, anything you can think of.
That's the end of this part of the Ultimate Cheat Sheet to Writing Stories. Catch Setting a Setting next Wednesday!
Don't forget to catch a glimpse of: Before You Start and Do You Know Your Plot?
Hope these help you in your journey to writing. If you have any questions you are always welcome to contact me at any time and I will do my best to help you out in any way I can.
Have a British day -Kac
The Quest for Characters
First, gather together what you have so far. Your ideas, your plot, everything. Examine your plot, look at it very closely, but not so close that you can see everything inside of it. No, you want to look around inside your plot for the kind of characters it needs. If your plot is based around the zombie apocalypse, you'll want a character who is brave and strong, or one that has no choice but to stop being a shy wallflower and become a strong leader. You don't want a character for that kind of plot where he or she is never willing to stop being scared, because then people who read the book will probably not like your character and lots of characters will die because of him or her.
Now, once you decide on your main character and what you think they should be like, it's time to move onto the direct side characters, or the other main characters as some may call them. These characters are the ones the primary main character will spends most of his or her time around. Your main character will not always get along with them, in fact, your primary main character and your other main characters should not get along always, because this creates conflict and readers love conflict. Even when they get along with your main character they should not always be getting along with each other. Make sure your characters still go well with the main story idea in one way or another, this will help them fit into the story better and you won't feel like the are out of place.
You don't need to worry about creating every single tiny character in your story before you write it, just the ones you will be focusing most of your story on, such as your main characters, main side characters, antagonist, and side antagonists.
Sometimes you can find the perfect character walking down the street or maybe standing next to you in line somewhere. Always keep your eyes out because you never know what kind of character might come waltzing in your life without warning. Maybe your perfect character is hiding out in your yearbook. What you can do is take your yearbook and take random people and try to say what you think they would act like, what their personality would be like, how they do things, anything you can think of.
That's the end of this part of the Ultimate Cheat Sheet to Writing Stories. Catch Setting a Setting next Wednesday!
Don't forget to catch a glimpse of: Before You Start and Do You Know Your Plot?
Hope these help you in your journey to writing. If you have any questions you are always welcome to contact me at any time and I will do my best to help you out in any way I can.
Have a British day -Kac
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