The Lounge

Cadie,

When I create a character, I generally have an image of the character in mind. I go to Google and search images of the type. For example, "grey-haired, balding, round-faced grandfather". When I find the image I download it and add it to the yWriter section for my character.

Instead of just answering a long list of biography questions like eye color, hair color, etc., I interview my characters with a list of questions. Doing it this way I get my creative juices going and I discover speech patterns, and personality quirks of the character along with those, otherwise boring details such as eye color and hair color. With that done, I store it in the character bio section of yWriter. That way, it stays stored with the story and I can refer to it whenever I need to.

I really like yWriter.

Jim