![]() Lesson #1: CharactersA Lesson by Kyari Hasutto![]() Character Introduction![]() This section is
about original characters. Personally, I think this is the most important area
to develop originality in. The parts of
characters that I’m going to focus on (for now) are as follows:
Race/Nationality/Ethnic Group/Class, Looks, Names, Personality/Hobbies/Quirks/Skills,
Occupation, and Relationships. Each of these is interlocking, and each one
affects the other. For example, if your setting was in the early 1800s (we’ll
discuss setting later) and the character was a ‘white human,’ you would not
make their occupation “slave,” at least, you wouldn’t if you were going for a
historical approach. (Though now that I think about it…that would be an
interesting story line.) Sometimes
characters must fit into a specific ‘character category.’ This is because most
of the time, writers try to mimic reality. If there’s a mean girl at school
(which there inevitably is in any stories involving education) then she will be
one of the “popular” crowd. Mean girls aren’t part of the unpopular crowd.
You’ve heard similar things before. Some people almost have to be stock
characters, or at least exhibit some stock character traits in order to move
the main character forward. Having the main character be original is the most
important thing, however. You have to make
the reader attached to your character somehow. So, the introductory lesson is:
pick a character that you have already created, and write down why the reader
would want to know about that character. What makes him/her/it interesting to
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