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10 Tips for Crafting Authentic Characters

Give them depth: Create characters with multidimensional personalities, including strengths, weaknesses, quirks, and flaws. They should have a mix of virtues and vices that make them relatable and interesting.

Provide backstory: Develop a detailed backstory for each character, even if only a fraction of it makes it into your story. Understanding a character's past experiences, traumas, and motivations will inform their actions and decisions in the present.

Show their emotions: Allow your characters to express a range of emotions realistically. Show how they react to different situations, both internally and externally, to make them feel human and relatable.

Give them distinct voices: Each character should have a unique way of speaking, with distinct vocabulary, syntax, and speech patterns. This helps readers differentiate between characters and adds authenticity to their dialogue.

Create internal conflicts: Give your characters inner struggles and conflicting desires that they must grapple with throughout the story. Internal conflicts add depth and complexity to characters, making them more believable.

Show their relationships: Develop meaningful relationships between characters, whether they're familial, romantic, platonic, or adversarial. Show how these relationships evolve and influence the characters' development over time.

Make them evolve: Characters should grow and change over the course of the story, driven by their experiences and the challenges they face. Allow them to learn from their mistakes, overcome obstacles, and develop as individuals.

Ground them in reality: Anchor your characters in the real world by giving them relatable experiences, hobbies, jobs, or cultural backgrounds. Incorporating realistic details adds depth and authenticity to their portrayal.

Show their flaws: Imperfect characters are often the most compelling. Don't be afraid to showcase your characters' flaws and vulnerabilities; these imperfections make them more relatable and human.

Give them agency: Allow your characters to drive the plot forward through their actions, decisions, and choices. Avoid making them passive observers or mere vehicles for the story's events. Characters with agency feel more authentic and engaging to readers.

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Time

They say time heals all wounds. But where are you with your magical balm to ease the wounds you inflicted on me? Where are you in the dark hours of mourning when I can’t remember what my safe haven felt like? How can you heal me when I lie awake and fester over the memories I’ve lost to you? Where are you when I can’t think of a single happy memory from my childhood? Is it because you yourself forced me to leave them behind? Does Time march on because you can not bear to see the scars you impose on others longer than it takes to make them? And while you march on you leave everything in your wake stagnant mausoleums haunt the once bustling life I knew. Everyone wishes for more of you, falling for the hope that you promise. Money. Patience. Healing. I don’t. I see you as you are. A heartless monster who seeks only to hide from pain that you cause. Keep marching on. Keep promising healing. Drag everyone I know and love with you by the heels through the dirt and the mud. Just know if you ever decide to look back at the graveyard you have curated I will be standing tall, living in spite of you.

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I do not know how to mourn the dead. If I knew how to mourn at all, I would not be a writer.

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I feel like my (main) struggle with my Male Main Character (MMC) is I’m writing these beautiful words and yearning actions and then I remember that he’s supposed to be dangerous and has killed hundreds of men with his bare hands. Like I see him the way he sees him which is great except the story is told from the Female Main Character’s (FMC) perspective and she A) doesn’t like him and B) is terrified of him. He just wants to love her so bad he doesn’t see the bloodlust in his owns eyes. She’s too focused on the blood to even notice the lust.

Anyway I’m probably going to write more tonight rather than procrastination via editing. We’ll see how it goes.

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I love the dark aesthetic these photos give roses. it also reminds me of the kind of imagery I’m trying to infuse into my novel. I don’t think I’m doing a good job of that but a rough draft is just that- rough draft

𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬

All pics from Pinterest

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i want to be where i am loved. i want to fly where the clouds embrace me.

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This but turn her into a human. I’m not gonna fight her on her turf. She gets to fight in mine.

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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Rumi

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this is so me-core

#I’m looking at you middle and high school

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“Living weapon” covers a lot and all of it is hot

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I hate it here, actually.

So writing is fun, like in theory. But in practice it's a pain. I don't exactly have writer's block, more like writer's doubt. I know what I am doing with the plot, admirable I know, but the in between spaces are just such a drag to actually get through. Especially when they are important to the plot. And I know, I know- I could just write the fun parts and then go back, but I would rather pluck every hair from my body with dull tweezers, skin myself, and jump into a bath of lemon juice and salt before writing something out of order. A personal problem really, but then again this is my own personal blog so I can vent about how I should be writing the part where the mc finds out her mom (redacted in hindsight in case one of my beta readers (love you pookie) is also secretly on tumblr)but I would rather complain to the maybe (?) one person who might see this. (even one is a stretch) Any way my plot is really intriguing (to me anyway) it's just such a drag to write the heart wrenching parts. Maybe one day I'll actually publish it, but at this point it's like what's the point. I should really probably try to write at the very least. If I'm going to complain about something I should at least do the thing I am complaining about.

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polonius: my honorable lord, i will most humbly take my leave of you

hamlet: ok boomer