What is required for a character to be believable? How do you create yours?
A believable character is the construct of life experience. Mine are created through an unbearably good memory.
I have been told over and over again to write what you know. As a beginning writer it is easy to pick characters and events from actual life experiences. I have a very large family and most are funny and silly. It makes it easy to create characters from the characters I have been around all of my life.
I often base characters on someone I know and then exaggerate. Or not. Keep it real and characters come alive on the pages.
That's a hard one. I fashion my characters from real people; not one specific person, but I take from many personalities of similar people and but those traits into a single character. A believeable character for me is one with consistency; integrity. I have to believe that the personality of that character would actually react in that that manner, in that situation. The author must have given me enough insight into the character for me to form a picture and impression in my mind, and then never deviate from that set up unless the motivation is explained.
Don't create characters.
Observe.. everywhere you go what do regular folk around you do.. these are the characteristics you write about
A character should be fully developed with all the features of a human. I usually create my characters from experience.
To be real. To have real life qualities and emotions. I create mine with pieces of the daily lives of people around me and sometimes with pieces of my own character. I like to hear people stories, emotions and if possible give them advice. If I can make a difference in people's lives I make it, and it makes me smile :)
small details and creating a background story to the character.
I make them relaiteable....not completely perfect...they will have a personality that balences...they make mistakes...ect.again nothing cliche'
They have to have faults as well as admirable traits. Even the most cantankerous character has a loveable side. I never make my protagonist totally loveable nor my antagonist totally evil.
The character has to want something...I try to imagine a slice of that person's life, a little bit of ephemera that informs the whole, like a clothing choice or a dietary decision that spills over into other areas of his/her life...
It needs to appear real. To be someone that (at least some of) the audience can identify with. This may just relate to their behaviour in certain circumstances, rather than their actual character(istics).
I don't create characters. I write non-fiction. |
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