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: Choosing character names is a constant difficulty I find it hard to name my characters. Every normal name sounds funny if applied to a product of my fantasy. If I take a common name, I may
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: Resources about different people types? I'm native German, but trying to write in English for various reasons. One of the big points in a story is to keep the characters very distinct from
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: Character Development - How much is too much? I've read loads of books where the reaction and development of characters seems to extreme for the events that effect them in the story. However
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: Resources for character development I'm weak at building characters. What resources are there to create rich characters? I'm thinking beyond name generators: Quirks, biography, diseases like allergies,
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: Tools for generating characters' names I found this name generator: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com And I'm wondering if maybe there are others? Has anybody found this kind of tool useful? What
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: Is this character generator useful? After some feedback from this site and a training course, I developed a little tool to help with character generation. It's called "20 Questions" and works
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: The polymath's dilemma...? The main character of a YA story I am working on is fast becoming a polymath, i.e. someone with a broad base of skills and interests across unrelated areas of endeavor.
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: How should I introduce my characters? I'm pretty good at creating compelling characters with decent personalities and motivations. I like the comradery vibe, so they're generally already part of
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: How do you make a character quintessential, but not cliched or cartoony? I think it's hard to make a character standout and embody their traits without becoming cliched or cartoony. How do you
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: Character with extreme manners My objective is Victorian-style tea-drinking "upper class" lady characters. (It's more of a writing challenge.) Does anyone have any useful resources or tips for creating
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: Finding the 'voice' of a character This is a very general question that I want to throw out there just to get some insight into different approaches used. I have my own, but am intrigued
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: How to describe the point-of-view character without using mirrors In fiction, the main character is often the first person we meet in the story. Given that the story is written from his/her
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: Sympathetic portrayal of devout, rule-abiding characters I'm having trouble portraying religious, devout characters as protagonists or viewpoint characters. When I try, I get the sense that the reader
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: "multiple personalities" for character development in writing? How can I train myself to think in "multiple personalities" so I can use these personalities for character development in writing?
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: How to refer to character of focus in a story I find that when I write, I'm not always sure how to refer to the character of focus. You can only say "he/she" so many times before it feels
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: Example of a fictional story without any characters (the story being 1000+ words) Guessing that there is no such example, but if there is, I'm very interested in knowing about it. Just as a
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: Does my story structure for an ensemble zombie story sound effective? I'm working on a novel about the psychological struggle of 7 characters. It's got an ensemble cast, where every character
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: Writing character cards? I read somewhere that authors sometimes use cards to write down information about the characters in their stories. I assume these were small cards so what was written
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: How often do writers develop characters before plot, and why? As someone who writes a little as a hobby, this is something that I haven't really thought about until just recently, but... Is
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: Multiple POVs in a single scene This question came up in another forum, so I thought I'd share it here. Should there be only one POV per scene? Is it OK to go with multiple POVs? An example
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: How do you develop a strong female character? Are there specific characteristics that one should strive for when trying to develop a strong female character? Is it truly dependent on the genre
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: Tips for adding more personality to characters? Often I read a new book only to find that the characters are flat, boring, and lacking in personality. Sometimes I even find that in my own
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: Source ideas for monsters in a fantasy novel? Does anyone have any suggestions on where to go to get some ideas on different types of monsters that can be created for a fantasy novel? I'm
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: Is there a quick way to know I have created a Mary Sue? For those who don't know what a Mary Sue is: see here. The problem is, there are far too many ways a character can be a Mary
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: First Person Voice - Same as speaking? When writing in first person, if the POV character talks with a certain dialect or type of diction (eg. "I ain't got all day! Hurry it up, will ya?")
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: Can a likeable character be unsympathetic? I believe an unlikable character can be sympathetic, although that's tricky. But can you go the other way? Can your character be likable but at the
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: Is it acceptable for a book to not have a dominant lead character? I saw this question posted in another forum, and it didn't have any responses, so naturally I decided to bring it over here.
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: How do I round out a powerful character? I've created a character named "Mathias Mindblade" who is trained by a wise wizard to lead a rebellion against the Darkness Empire and eventually to
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: Is it OK to refer to some characters by first name and to others by last name? I'm writing the outline for my first novel, which has three main characters. I'm very happy with their names,
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: Organization for epic fantasy writing Possible Duplicate: Organizing your Universe? I have some issues on the organization of my fantasy story. For instance there are many factions
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: The opposite sex in first person? I have been writing about not just one, but two females; sisters. I've toyed with different methods/persons in this, but it seems I've come to an obvious roadblock.
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: What to do when characters disagree with the plot? I'm writing a romance novel and have hit a brick wall. The problem is every way I think the future lovebirds could meet and become friends
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: How to create varying, yet realistic, speech patterns Different characters speak differently. If someone reads me a letter written by an immediate relative, I can tell right away who wrote it.
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: What exercises will help me write my co-author's character? I'm working on a novel together with my co-author, K. K's come up with this great character - a sassy were-cat name Garlic. Unfortunately,
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: Literary criticism term for character espousing author's ideas? Is there a term in literary criticism for a character who espouses the points of view of the author? Especially, but not necessarily,
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: Balancing loads of equally-important characters If you have a dozen good guys, but four of them are the protagonists and the other six are more in the background, it's not that hard to skew
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: When to use the character's name and when to use she/he? This is the first short story where I'm using actual names for the characters. Here is a sample: "Sorry for the question," Jun
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: How/When to create deliberately boring characters? Among a million other ambitions under the general heading of "Writing," I have this fantasy where I write a major series, several books long
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: Sympathetic portrayal of an evil protagonist with good motivations I'm contemplating writing about a character with good motivations whose actions would be considered evil. In short the story would
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: My cool character is doing nothing for the plot. How do I deal with him? So I have this great character( not the main protagonist), who is funny and intelligent. Each scene I write for him
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