Category: character
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Character Ideas Through Substitution
Here’s another way to generate character ideas. Substitute one reaction for another. We all tend to make our characters behave like ourselves or like people […]
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Better Character Ideas: Throw Two Away
Here’s a simple way to generate better character ideas, or story ideas of any sort. This isn’t so much a source of story ideas as […]
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Where to Get Character Names
After all my bellyaching about how little character names really matter in the grand scheme of things, here are some of my favorite on-line sources […]
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Ender vs. Anakin
Orson Scott Card’s classic award-winning novel Ender’s Game features Ender Wiggin, a six-year old boy genius who saves the world. Ender has superhuman talents that […]
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Writing about real people
Kiki Opdenberg at The Kissy Bits has a great episode on creating realistic characters and using them to turn fantasy into reality. -TimK
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How to Name Characters
Writers often waste too much of their blood picking names for their characters. Even so, character names can be used to enhance the story. Here […]
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Great Characters and How to Make Them
The are lots of great books and other resources to teach you how to make good fictional character, but my favorite step-by-step guide is Holly […]
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Where to Get Character Ideas
I’ve discovered a new source of character ideas, at least for me. Anyone can get ideas in the same way, even if not from the […]
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The Forces of Character Change
Extraordinary changes require extraordinary forces. The bigger the change, the larger the force needed to make it. This may seem obvious, but I continue to […]
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The Secret to Naming Characters
This is something that pops up from time to time on the writing boards: How do you choose names for your characters? Writers are desperate […]
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