Writing Characters: Step-by-Step | 2 Manuscripts in 1 Book | Essential Character Archetypes, Character Emotions and Character Writing Tricks Any Writer Can Learn

By Sandy Marsh

2 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: Character Development and Plotting!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Sandy Marsh
• Release date: Jun 3, 2024
• ISBN: 9798330214242

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WRITING CHARACTERS

STEP-BY-STEP

2 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: Character Development and Plotting

Sandy Marsh

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BOOK 1: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

STEP-BY-STEP

Essential Story Character Creation, Character Expression and Character Building Tricks Any Writer Can Learn

Sandy Marsh

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Introduction

Thank you and congratulations for purchasing "Character Development: Step-by-Step | Essential Story Character Creation, Character Expression and Character Building Tricks Any Writer Can Learn".

This book will help you with every aspect of character building, from creating the basic structure for your character to designing their personality and even helping develop them alongside the development of your story. Everything you will learn within’ this book will ensure that you are equipped with all of the knowledge you need in order to create characters that are compelling and that your readers can fall in love with.

If you have read the previous books from this series, then you will know just how important your characters are to your story. This guidebook will provide you with all of the knowledge you need in order to help create strong characters that will move your story forward and assist you in building the powerful and important emotional attachment between your reader and your characters.

Each chapter within’ this book will provide you with part of the character building process. Within’ that part you will be given step-by-step instructions so that you can easily create the best characters possible, knowing that they have been designed with every necessary feature to make them powerful additions and tools for your storytelling process. Without further ado, feel free to dive on into the character building experience. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: The Basics

It is no secret how important characters are to your story. They are the individuals that the story is about. Therefore, they are responsible for the story itself. They help you create the story, move the story forward, and introduce change and other action along the way. Without characters, there would be virtually no way for you to design a story.

Before we explore how you can build your own characters, we are going to explore the basics and important features of characters. This will help you understand more about why characters are so important and why you need them. It will also give you a foundational understanding of each unique style of character and how they can serve your story overall.

Why Characters Are Important

Stories are essentially created through verbal or written recollections of events that took place. In literary work, thoughts, choices, words, consequences, and actions are all important elements that are responsible for contributing to the plot line. Naturally, these qualities must be expressed in some form or manner. Since these are human qualities, it makes sense then that they would be expressed through a human-based character. Alternatively, such as in children’s stories, they may be expressed through animal characters that possess these human-like qualities.

Characters are an important tool used by authors and writers to move stories forward. These are the personalities that give them the power to add the element of thought, action, words, choices, and consequences into their book. Without characters, they would essentially be describing a scene whereby nothing would be happening because there would be no one for it to happen to, for, or as a result of.

In order to establish themselves as useful tools that are used to move a plot forward, characters can be broken down into twelve categories. You will learn more about each of these categories in the next section. However, it is important to understand that each of these categories was designed to help create powerful and useable tools that writers can call on to help them progress the story forward.

Types of Characters

When you read a novel, you may be surprised to know that characters go a lot deeper than you think. In the novel, you watch the characters evolve, and new ones come and go along the way, but you may not understand how much actually goes into the development of these characters. When authors want to create a story that has a great deal of depth and can easily be believed as a real-life person, it is important that they understand the different types of characters that exist and how they can serve their story.

Naturally, fiction characters are made up. While they may be completely based on real people or have certain features borrowed from people that the author knows in real life, they are still made up characters. This is how the author is able to use them to build and move the story along because the characters can be used to achieve any outcome the author desires to create.

The following character styles will introduce you to twelve different types of characters that exist within’ stories. By understanding each unique