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
Fantasy: 1 | 2 | 3
Sci-Fi: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Romance: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Thrillers: 1 | 2
Horror: 1 | 2 | 3
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
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thewritingcafe
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writingwithcolor
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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
How to Create a Character Profile
Writing Character Bios
Character Sheets and Character Creation
Gender/Sexuality Generator
Extremely Detailed Character Template
Writer’s Resource: Character Template
Character Description
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