When I write, I am always told that my characters are my weak points, and I agree on that. This is probably because I mostly spend my time by...
Hi there, I'm new to the site and I hope I am posting this in the right section. I've had an idea in my head for as long as I can remember and...
I haven't actually started writing my story yet, but here is the basic plot. Basically, the typical island plot comes into play where a girl is...
I write many stories, and every story needs characters. And since that means I need characters, I have developed my own way to make up my own...
I've long been interested in personality theory. Many of these theories discribe people's quirks, languge usage and potential conflicts between...
One of the techniques I use to try to develop a character is that when I come up with a Character before I place them into the Larger world of my...
I have a general idea of my plot will be like, I think it is better to start with the characters first, I have nearly completed character but 90%...
That's when Rumi said to get up and ponder life, and that sounds oddly reasonable to me. I wrote a YA novel. Somehow I didn't keep track while...
I am currently working on a novel about a young woman who is a child prodigy and a musical genius; it is in the style of an autobiography, so it...
Hi! I'm new to Writing Forums and I have a fairly difficult question to begin... My friends and I are writing a screenplay, it's a zombie...
I always have a hard time with character development. My biggest concern is the amount of characters needed. I mean I have my main characters (my...
How do you know when your character is three dimensional enough? What test do you apply to determine that your character is realistic, believable,...
There already are threads about this I think, but something I'm curious about is this. Have you written a story where you started out with one...
Hi sorry i havent written on here for a while I've been quite busy. But I've got a quick question. When writting my first book would it be ok to...
There are characters I come across in books that are portrayed to be ''villains' 'punishers' like in the Bible where God is portrayed to be doing...
I'm stuck with a bizarre conundrum. Basically, trying to make a character deep, sympathetic, and also, scary. Now, it seems the rule with scary is...
I tried my best to give this thread a title that would accurately reflect my problem, hopefully I did it... :D Basically, it goes like this: in...
The spice of life isn't the oregano you keep in your spice cabinet it's the sarcastic juicy characters that make the majority of fictions and...
Being a woman myself and just starting my writing career, I don't feel one-hundred percent comfortable in my abilities to write guys properly. I...
I've been developing (and re-doing as my idea changes) initial character profiles. There just notes and for the most part I feel I can jot them...
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