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1. Have a sense of humor.
2. Learn to do some things for yourself; don't just sit around and expect someone else to handle all the work.
3. Have a listening ear and a sympathetic heart.
4. Dream about true love, but at the same time know how to care for yourself.
5. If you do find love, love him for who he is, not for what you want him to be.
6. Never be controlling or manipulative.
7. Never let anyone push you around.
8. Cry when necessary, but don't get carried away.
9. Always stand by those whom you truly care about.
10. Don't be so serious that you forget to have fun, but don't have so much fun that you forget to be serious.
2. Learn to do some things for yourself; don't just sit around and expect someone else to handle all the work.
3. Have a listening ear and a sympathetic heart.
4. Dream about true love, but at the same time know how to care for yourself.
5. If you do find love, love him for who he is, not for what you want him to be.
6. Never be controlling or manipulative.
7. Never let anyone push you around.
8. Cry when necessary, but don't get carried away.
9. Always stand by those whom you truly care about.
10. Don't be so serious that you forget to have fun, but don't have so much fun that you forget to be serious.
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Knowing Your Character
In a storywhether it be told on stage, on screen, or in printknowing your main characters inside and out helps create a well rounded and interesting plot. It also makes writing them easier too. In this guide, a companion to To Create a Character, I'll attempt to help put skin and flesh on the bare bones of a character, to create "character," and to discover things about them that youthe creatornever knew.
Exercise 1: Interviews
One of my favorite ways to get to know my character is to interview them as one would a celebrity. The interview can be general, just asking about their life, likes, pet peeves, etc. or it can
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Exercise: Your Character's Distinct Voice
The purpose of this exercise is to see how much you've differentiated each of your main characters' voices from each other.
How to Use
Pick a few major characters in your story. (I recommend using between 3 and 6.) For each of the numbered prompts below, choose what each character would say in that circumstance. You may want to write a few sentences of dialogue from that character or a quick internal monologue.
These lines are meant to generate short pieces of dialogue (about 1-5 sentences), as it's easiest to compare lines to each other that way. If you start writing long paragraphs or another character's reply to your character, then sto
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How to Introduce a Character
The classical Movie Introduction Sometimes, you get a hero. Not over time, but right at the start this is your hero. He's confident, he's suave, and he always packs his shaving cream. Somehow he always manages to get that beard just right, despite the fact that you've never seen him trim. Everything about him is admirable, and you just wanna follow him like a little puppy dog because that's how AWESOME he is.
it might work, but you still shouldn't do it. It's one thing for movies, where you can simply follow someone's action across the screens. In books, you want the closeness that only seeing the character fall on their
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With all these lists of "How to be a Mary Sue" or "Life Lessons from Mary Sue" and yadda, yadda, I figured I'd make a list that shows how to be the opposite of a Mary Sue, how to have a female character that people will actually like. I'm proud to say that virtually all of my women in my stories (thus far) fit these descriptions.
How to Be a Likeable Male Character [link]
How to Be a Likeable Male Character [link]
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1. Do pranks and teasing gross people count?
2. I like writing teams tho my MC does her job
3. She's always there for her friends
4. Got it
5. But I make up who he is so who he is and what I want him to be are the same
6. Does it count if the guy I made up likes it? Like my MC can be on the phone saying she doesn't feel well and he'll pick her up heating pads aloe water and dark chocolate almond bars from CVS
7. Big mood
8. I make her cry sometimes because if she feels sad and hurt then readers will feel sad and hurt and making readers feel makes the story good
9. Yes she does this
10. Meh they'll be as serious or silly as the scene needs
Nice post tho yeah I don't like it whenever a guy character literally does everything
2. I like writing teams tho my MC does her job
3. She's always there for her friends
4. Got it
5. But I make up who he is so who he is and what I want him to be are the same
6. Does it count if the guy I made up likes it? Like my MC can be on the phone saying she doesn't feel well and he'll pick her up heating pads aloe water and dark chocolate almond bars from CVS
7. Big mood
8. I make her cry sometimes because if she feels sad and hurt then readers will feel sad and hurt and making readers feel makes the story good
9. Yes she does this
10. Meh they'll be as serious or silly as the scene needs
Nice post tho yeah I don't like it whenever a guy character literally does everything