The centre of interest in almost all short stories is the dynamic interaction between characters; what people do and say to each other, how they affect and influence each other, and the effects of their actions on each other. This is what the whole business is really about, and we should ...
From Alex Cross to Michael Bennett, James has mastered the art of creating complex and memorable characters. Hero to villain, learn how to make your character stay with your reader well beyond the last page.
Creative writing - creating charactersFitchett, AngelaEnglish in Aotearoa
Writing background characters: 5 usesGenre-specific character typesIn addition to the broad types above, there are character types specific to different genres (though not all the types below necessarily appear, for example, a hero might not have a sidekick):...
Diving deep into creating characters' backstories not only helps you create roles actors want to play, but also creates more opportunities for interesting plot points and conflict. Jeanne Veillette Bowerman gives you 30 days of lessons on developing your
These four heroic attributes aren’t necessarily tied together. In fact, they can be swapped for other attributes, distributed among several characters and even put together in different ways! For example, suppose we change one attribute and create a character with the following four qualities: ...
is requiring 18 hours a day attention and looks like it will for the next three weeks. So I will have to take a break from everything to attend to my family. I should be back after that though and hope to report a happily ever after for my situation as well as for my characters....
search Google for “fan fiction”. Many, many books, TV series and movies have spawned a huge amount of creative writing by fans – and this writing is all about the characters. The plots and sometimes even the settings are different from those in the original, but the characters remain th...
In Abugida writing systems, a cluster is an orthographic unit of text that combines multiple phonetic and orthographic elements. It is desirable to control the sequence of characters forming a cluster so that a single visual cluster does not have multiple different encoding sequences as that would...