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10 Ways to Develop Characters
“10 Ways to Develop Characters” is a how-to book about creating characters. Fiction writers want well-developed, realistic characters in their stories. This book helps you develop characters in 10 different ways, from understanding what character development is to troubleshooting characters.
Learning about Archetypes and doing Character Sketches can help quickly develop deep characters. Discovering how to use Character Arcs and adding Secrets to characters help integrate the characters into plots with some intriguing tension. Characters that are Real help readers relate to them. It also helps to understand the different Roles. Stories are written from a Point of View, which helps us understand how our characters work within a story. Plots and characters must interact with each other. Understanding their relationship is a big part of developing a character. Lastly, when characters don’t work, we need to be able to troubleshoot and fix them.
Learning about Archetypes and doing Character Sketches can help quickly develop deep characters. Discovering how to use Character Arcs and adding Secrets to characters help integrate the characters into plots with some intriguing tension. Characters that are Real help readers relate to them. It also helps to understand the different Roles. Stories are written from a Point of View, which helps us understand how our characters work within a story. Plots and characters must interact with each other. Understanding their relationship is a big part of developing a character. Lastly, when characters don’t work, we need to be able to troubleshoot and fix them.
70 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 2, 2014
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