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Resource Dump: Creating Characters!
Primary Characters
- Your Hero: Top Ten Rules
- 10 Traits of a Great Protagonist
- 4 Steps to Creating a Truly Active Protagonist
- 20 Tips for Creating Relatable Protagonists
- How to Center your Story
- How to Create Unforgettable Protagonists
- 25 Things You Should Know About Protagonists
- Creating Memorable Characters
- Creating Strong Female Protagonists
- Creating Dynamic Protagonists
- How to Create Characters
- Inner Dialogue - Writing Inner Character Thoughts
- 25 Things a Great Character Needs
- 5 Ways to Create 3D Characters
Secondary Characters
- 10 Secrets to Creating Unforgettable Supporting Characters
- How to Write Effective Supporting Characters
- Question to Ask (& Strengthen) Your Minor Characters
- 5 Tips for Developing Supporting Characters
- Techniques for Creating Great Secondary Characters
- 5 Steps to Dazzling Minor Characters
- 3 Ways to Create Stupendous Supporting Characters
- Creating Memorable Secondary Characters
- 5 Archetypes for Supporting Characters
- Your Map to Creating a Memorable Minor Characters
Names
- Top Ten Tips
- 8 Tips for Naming Characters
- 7 Rules of Naming Fictional Characters
- Name that Character!
- 6 Creative Ways to Name your Character
- Naming your Characters
- A Guide to Naming Characters
- Female: 1 | 2 | 3
- Male: 1 | 2 | 3
- Alien: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- Surname: 1 | 2 | 3
- Unisex: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Traits
- List: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
- Developing Character Traits
- How to Create Good Personalities for your Characters
- Develop Memorable Personalities
- Give your Character Personality
- How to Create a Character’s Personality
- How to Make Sure your Character’s Personality Shines
- 5 Building Blocks of your Character’s Personality
Appearance
- Appearance Generator
- Your Character’s Physical Appearance
- How to Describe a Character’s Looks
- Describing a Character’s Appearance
- Character Description Resource
- Examples of Physical Characteristics
- Describing the Physical Attributes of your Characters
- How Great Authors Describe Character Appearance
- Ultimate Guide to Nailing your Character’s Appearance
- Describing Clothing and Appearance
- Character Appearance Help
- Character Description Resource
- Describing People: A Person’s Physical Appearance
- Describing the Physical Attributes of Characters
Speech
- Talking About your Character: Speech
- Variety in Character Voices
- All your Characters Talk the Same
- How to Create Distinctive Character Voices
- How to Create Characters Who Don’t Sound like You
- The Art of Voice in Fiction
- Create Varying, Yet Realistic, Speech Patterns
- The Art and Craft of Dialogue
- Writing Character Voice
- Creating Differences in the Speech Patterns of your Characters
- Style: Person and Speech
- Dialects: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Backstory
- Building Better Backstories
- Basic Tips to Create Better Characters with Tragic Backstories
- How to Write a Backstory
- Writing Characters Using Conflict and Backstory
- Backstory Description Generator
- Questions to Create Character Backstory
- How to Weave in Backstory to Reveal Character
- Nail your Character’s Backstory
- How to Write Backstory Without Putting your Reader to Sleep
- How to Write a Killer Backstory
Diversity
- How to Make Young Adult Fiction More Diverse
- Writing People of Color
- A Few Tips and Resources for Writing Characters of Colour
- Writing Characters of Colour Tastefully
- Writing With Colour
- 7 Offensive Mistakes Well-Intentioned Writers Make
- Writing Characters of Colour
- Describing Characters of Colour
Gender
- Female: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- Male: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- Transgender: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
- Non-Binary: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Sexuality
- Main Character Sexuality
- On Writing LGBTQ Characters: 1 | 2
- Writing Gay Characters
- Guide to LGBT YA
- Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes
- Writing Bisexual Characters: 1 | 2
- Writing Asexual Characters: 1 | 2
- Pansexual & Demisexual Characters
- How to Write Gay, Bisexual and Pansexual Characters
Introduction
- Introducing a Character
- Introducing your Main Character
- Do’s and Don’ts for Introducing your Protagonist
- First Impressions
- How to Introduce a Character
- How Not to Introduce a Main Character
- Introducing the Protagonist
Development
- Character Development
- 9 Ingredients of Character Development
- Characterisation 1 - Character Development
- How to Develop a Character for a Story
- Character Development
- Character Development Drives Conflict
- Developing your Characters and Making them Interesting
Relationships
- How to Write Strong Character Relationships
- Character Relationships
- 3 Keys to Developing Character Relationships
- The Secret Behind Great Character Relationships
- 3 Tips for Character Relationships
- Building Believable Relationships
- Sibling: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
- Platonic: 1 | 2 | 3
- Romantic: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Strengths
- Identifying your Character’s Strengths
- Character Strengths and Weaknesses
- Introducing the 24 Character Strengths
- Character Strengths and Virtues List
- Strengths and Weaknesses
- A Balance of Strengths
Flaws
- 123 Ideas for Character Flaws
- DarkWorld RPG Flaws List
- Character Flaws
- Ten Ugliest Character Flaws
- The Four Types of Character Flaws
- On Giving Flaws and Weaknesses
- Character Flaw Index
Goal
- Why your Character’s Goal Needs to be 1 of these 5 Things
- Goals Define the Plot
- Goal Setting for You and your Character
- How to Explore you Character’s Motivation
- 4 Ways to Motivate Character and Plot
- Motivation
By Genre
Heroes
- Your Hero: Top Ten Rules
- How to Write your Own Hero Story
- What Makes a Great Hero?
- Creating Heroes and Heroines
- Write a Story about a Hero
- How to Create an Antihero that Readers Love
- Heroes vs. Anti-Heroes
- Create a Super Hero
- How to Create a Brand New Iconic Hero or Villain
- What Makes a Hero
Villains
- How to Create a Credible Villain in Fiction
- How to Make a Purely Evil Villain Interesting
- 9 Evil Examples of the Villain Archetype
- How Not to Create a Villain
- Creating Villains People Love to Hate
- 3 Techniques for Crafting a Better Villain
- Basic Tips to Write Better & More Despicable Villains
- Writing Tips for Creating a Complex Villain
- How to Create a Great Villain
Do’s & Don’ts
- Do’s and Dont’s of Writing a Good Character
- How to Create a Character
- Characterisation Dos and Dont’s
- Female Characters of Do’s and Dont’s
- Do’s and Dont’s of Dialect
Helpful Writing Blogs
- fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment*
- writeworld
- referenceforwriters
- thewritingcafe
- aquestionofcharacter *
- writingwithcolor
- fuckyeah-char-dev
- dailycharacterdevelopment
Clichés
- Characters and Cliches
- Top 10 Character Cliches
- 7 Lazy Character Cliches
- 10 Most Cliched Characters in Sci-Fi
- Four Worst Character Cliches
- Female Character Cliches
- Character Cliches to Avoid
- The Cliche Character Test
- How Cliches Can Help You Make Great Characters
Templates
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