Tag: character traits
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What Is Character?
(I extracted this post from an upcoming free ebook Character Fiction 101: How to Write Fictional Characters and Character Stories.) When I first started writing […]
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9 More Sources for Character Ideas
Ideas are a dime a dozen, which is no consolation when you just can’t seem to come up with that perfect idea that will pull […]
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How to Turn Character Ideas into Characters
They say ideas are a dime a dozen, even character ideas. Many experienced authors don’t even think about it anymore; they don’t remember when they […]
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PersonalityPage, Character Traits for Writers
I frequently use PersonalityPage.com to assemble personality traits for characterization. The site is not organized for writers. In fact, the site navigation is poorly designed […]
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Discovering Character Secrets from Your Relatives!
Much of the time, we treat relatives as obligations: “Yeah, but what can you do? He’s family.” This year, during the holiday break between December […]
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100 Free Fictional Character Ideas
… a tiny sample from 1001 Character Quirks for Writing Fiction. Literally, the full list is more than 10 times as big. Of course, the […]
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When to Use Character Quirks
I’ve read plenty of writing advice to improve your fictional characters using quirks, or hooks, or tags. That is, make the character more interesting by […]
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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 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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