rheas-chaos-motivation

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What You HAVE TO Know About Your Characters

What you HAVE TO know about your characters

Name:

Appearence:

Age:

Role:

Why the have that role, not based on the plot but based on the characters core beliefs and how that affects the plot:

Beliefs:

Motivations:

Who they were raised to be vs who they are/are becoming:

Plans for the future:

How they feel about themselves and how it affects their behavior:

Why do they even matter:

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11 months ago

Create your characters voice

Write one to ten pages (I usually do 5 for major character, 1 or 2 for side characters) as your character. Anything they would say, opinions, diary entries, complaining, etc.

Ooooh I have collected some helpful things to maybe include:

adopting slang from people they are close too/love interest

do they have a raspy voice? High pitched? Overly sweet? Commanding? Figure that out.

to make characters have their own voice vary rhythm, word choice, use of profanity, how much they talk about themselves or others, their politics.

Take some dialogue and ask if readers would be able to tell who is speaking with no context.

Write an AITA post from their point of view.

Identify what role your character has, a leader? a follower? a disrupter? a rebel? an antagonist? a peacemaker? How does that change the way they speak?

The character traits will tell you what your characters will say or how they will say it.

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11 months ago

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more foreshadowing purposes

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11 months ago

This is how many bullets they shot on a fucking kid.

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11 months ago

*grabs your shoulders and gently shakes you* you were just a child!!! You can’t keep blaming yourself for what happened!!!! No one can say you should’ve known what to do!!!!! You did your best at the expense of yourself!!!!! Forgive yourself for what you didn’t do, how could you have known to do it then??? You were a child!!!!

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