Hi, everyone!! I BE BACK! Yay! I didn't get abducted by aliens! Sorry about my absence, I've just been uber-busy, and stuff… I know, it's not a good excuse. But hey, what can I say? School can only be destroyed in the fire from which is was forged, and I ain't got that fire!
Anywhodiddle, today we're going to be creating characters with my all-new, totally-professional, Characteratron! Take notes.
Robotic Voice: "Welcome, Guest. Please identify which gender you want your character."
Okay, I just decided to name the Characteratron Grady, which happens to be the same name as my ratbird. But anyway, you will pick your gender as Step One. This part is literally the hardest part in the entire sequence. You have to know what exactly your characters serve for as a role in your story. Why are they existent? Are they just fat on the edges? Should you pull a socially-insecure-teenager and trim them off? You have to know why you are creating them. Say you picked a girl.
Robotic Voice: "You have picked: Girl. Please insert name personality."
Now we decide their personality. This girl will be name Eralia Warner, (and you can't steal this name btw because I'm already using it in a story XD SUCKAAASSSS) But anywho, this girl is named Eralia. Now for her personality… well, she's the hero in this story, so I'm going to make her sacrifical, kind, a little too headstrong… **imputes data**
**bleep bloop bling-blong KABOOSH shwim-shwim POW** Robotic Voice: "Eralia Warner: Sacrifical, Kind, a Little Too Headstrong. Please insert looks."
Eralia is a hero, right? So, Ms. Warner shouldn't look goth, or scary. She should have… blonde hair, sparkling blue eyes, and maybe like, a red streak in her hair.
**bloopy-blam-blam-shing!**
SHE'S BEING CREATED!!
**blingblingblingblingblingblingblingblingblingblingblingblingREADY!**
It's alive. ALIVE!! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!
ahem.
Haha, okay, so I probably didn't HAVE to use Grady (thanks, big guy!) but I wanted to illustrate the important factors that must be considered in making a character. You can't just plop them in there. You have to be able to develop them in a tight situation (running for their lives, being overheard in a conversation, vague prologue… etc.) They have to look like their personalities, which is a way to develop them. Also, you have to make a unique fact about them. I. E: Eralia's dad was killed mysteriously. She misses him and nostalgically puts her hair up in a bun because her dad always liked it that way.
I like being random, but still, that was a good example. Making your characters have personal touches makes them more personal. And you'll end up feeling sorry for poor little orphan Eralia Warner who's hair is always up in a bun.
Well, keep writing!
- Emilie
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