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This week: Building Characters Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Building Characters
Building characters for your stories might be the thing that comes easiest to you when weaving a new plot. That's great. But is it really that simple?
There are different ways to have reasons or needs for characters in stories. You have to make sure you have enough of them to give the reader enough personalities to deal with. And also enough personalities to carry out the different parts of the plot.
But how to get a character started?
Long before I even knew I would ever take a liking to novel length writing, I built a character using the character building promps from Shadowrun. I had to choose the gender, the race, the archetype, give them a name, and a few traits that kind-a-sorta made them unique. The beauty of table top role playing games is that I only had to develop one character. All other characters were created by the other players using the same rubric. In order to have a well-balanced team, we couldn't all be the same race. Well, we could, but didn't want to be.
Since that first character, I had to come up with many more characters to fill my stories. In the beginning, I often used some of the Shadowrun non player characters, or those showing up in Shadowrun stories as blueprints for my characters. Over time, I evolved away from that crutch and started creating characters in my world as I needed them.
How do you build your characters?
Do you have a story and then you add characters?
Or do you have a character and then you give them a story?
How much do you wonder about representation?
Are all of your characters easily recognizable archetypes or do you prefer to create off the wall characters that the reader has to figure out for a while?
Whether you create your characters while writing as you go or with lists, some of the resources listed below should help you create solid characters that can rope a reader in to turn the page and lead them on an adventure through your imagination.
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Reply to my last For Authors newsletter "Write For Fun"
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Writing translates the sincerity and the devotion of the author and the reader should perceive this.
A writing piece should be attractive, vivid and its characters should be present.
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