Full Color Drawing: (If you don't want to draw it yourself, find someone else to.)
Name:
Nickname: (Optional)
Age: (In human Years)
Birthday: (Your Character’s birthday)
Gender:
Race:
Breed: (For if you’d like to use a specific breed. Optional)
Job:
Specialty: (For example, a Chief might specialize in cake-decorating or a Gardner might specialize in the vineyard.)
Personality: (In paragraph form. At least 6-7 sentences long)
Likes: ( At least 5)
Dislikes: (At least 5)
Fears: (At least 1)
History: (A general overview of you life thus far, including any important events. At least 9-10 sentences long)
Inventory: (Anythi
9 Traits that Readers Want in Your Story's Hero by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
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9 Traits that Readers Want in Your Story's Hero
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9 Traits that Readers Want in Your Story's Hero
Today, I will conclude the trio of character types that I started with Villains and Antiheroes, by discussing what readers want from your story's Hero. Please note that I am speaking specifically about a heroic protagonist, not just any protagonist for any sort of story. Also remember that it could be the case that a story is about the protagonist BECOMING the hero. In this case, the story should be about learning or gaining these traits as they ma
7 Sorts of Character To Avoid in Your Novel by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
7 Sorts of Character To Avoid in Your Novel
7 Sorts of Character To Avoid in Your Novel
Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0
Chapter 5 “Characters” – Section 9 “Oversimplified Characters”
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"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats."
-Richard Bach
Last we talked about the types of characters you could add to your story. But there are also character types that you want to avoid as much as you can. Using the following types of character is usually the result of creating them only to move the plot al
7 Types of Character to Use in Your Novel by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
7 Types of Character to Use in Your Novel
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7 Types of Character to Use in Your Novel
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 3 “Characters” – Section 1 “Character Types”
With Links to Supplementary Material
If we're thinking of a story as a theatrical play, you now have a great many things ready for your production to begin. You have your setting (comprised of the Story-type, Timeline, and Maps), and you have your Three-Act Outline. Now, all you need to get started writing your scenes is a cast of characters.
5 Steps to Creating Great Supporting Characters by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
5 Steps to Creating Great Supporting Characters
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5 Steps to Creating Great Supporting Characters
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 3 “Characters” – Section 4 “The Antagonist”
With Links to Supplementary Material
With your Protagonist and Antagonist up and ready to go, you are now ready to create your Supporting Characters. These are the people in your story who show up multiple times and play an important role in the plot—not to be confused with Universe Filler Characters, who may only show up once. The fo
4 Tips for Choosing Your POV Character by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
4 Tips for Choosing Your POV Character
4 Tips for Choosing Your POV Character
Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0
Chapter 5 “Characters” – Section 8 “POV Characters”
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"He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them, or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness...."
-Herman Melville in "Moby Dick"
Last time, we spoke about every story has a narrator, and about how to create the narrator that will tell your story. If you have decided to write with a narrator who is not an actual character in the story, you now need