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Today's Topic 5 steps to create great characters great characters
I spend lots of time talking to people about the act of character creation. I think it is the purest and most important step of great worldbuilding. I was shocked at how many overly complicated systems I saw to create characters. Now, I do believe that you should spend some time developing essential characters for your fiction. However, what you need to look at is very simple.
Join Michael and I as we look at the 5 steps to great characters.
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Podcast Show Flow
- Strong Archetypes
- Patterns help others understand them
- Use Quirks to add flavor and uniqueness and develop personality
- Develop strong motivations think of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Basic Needs (physiological, Safety)
- Psychological needs (Belonging, Esteem)
- Self-Actualization
- Be able to visualize them in your head
- What someone would notice when meeting them
- The first time they meet (3 Things)
- When they get to know them (Think back to the quirks)
- Repeat until you can see them in your head
- All senses not just vision
- Use story action to define character,
- The exposition should not tell you who the character is
- But show you who they are
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Create a character based on you
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