16 Sep
Character creation is like distilling booze
From Ehzoterik
Author Rita Mae Brown compares creating characters to distilling liquor. She says we take bits and pieces of people and boil them down into a composite that becomes a character.
Lisa Angle, of Angle on Writing, has a 50 question worksheet to help develop or create your fictional characters. With questions that help cover everything from what they do and where they go to what they want and what might get in their way, Angle’s worksheet “will help you turn the characters in your story into living, breathing individuals.”
The worksheet is in PDF format, so you can just print it out and start jotting down your thoughts.
Character Development [Angle on Writing]
Can’t believe no one else is commenting or joining the site. >>;
I thought this little .pdf was really neat, asks questions about your character you wouldn’t normally think of and lets you expand on them. I’ll probably fill it out for my main. :D (Though I may leave out a question or two I really don’t feel will help at all)
Maybe if people wanted they could do it too, and people could share and discuss, and even talk about ways to further flesh out your character?
September 20th, 2007 at 3:06 pmHi. I’m a moron and didn’t realize this was a need to be registered to thing. Something to cover in a future article elsewhere, I’m thinking.
Very fine ideas, Lydia.
September 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pmThe registration is to help combat spam postings, and only the first time you enter a comment will it be moderated.
September 27th, 2007 at 7:45 pm