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Writing Hacked 8- Character Writing
Disclaimer: PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE PROCEEDING FURTHER!
I have no formal education in creative writing or literature whatsoever. I learned everything by myself through youtube, reading, research, understanding, and writing away as much as I can. I make a lot of mistakes whether it be grammatical or any other kind. I hope you can point them out and help me correct it so I can learn more. I will try my best to provide you errorless guidance though. I am not going to pretend to know everything because I really don't. I have a lot to discover yet.
Whatever I am going to tell you here is through my own understanding and experience.
Enjoy.
💥Writing Hacked- 8💥
HOW TO WRITE A GOOD STORY
🔸🔸🔸Character Writing🔸🔸🔸
Please check out the previous parts:
a) Writing Hacked (1-6): Plot Writing
b) Writing Hacked 7- Character Writing - Types of characters
🔶When creating a character there are many key points that should be added to make them as much as human or relatable as it is possible. Unless you are writing something else then you do you.
Writers urge you to take a relatable character because readers begin to feel for them through sympathy. They want them to win and admire them for who they are.
Now you know how Cinderella and Harry Potter are the most famous characters because we sympathize with them. They haven't done anything wrong but they face such harsh treatment that it makes readers want to get them what they deserve. In Bahubali, Shiva had been wronged and wanted to avenge the death of his father. This story drives on revenge which is a strong emotion used by many writers since the dawn of literature.
🌸Tip- If you are not aiming for a relatable character, then make them unique. How? I will tell you below🌸
I often come across many bland characters that are behaving as another ordinary human would. They are not even challenged! Where is the fun in that?
👉Key Points to add to your character
Let's learn the key elements to make a good character. They are very basic points that immediately add richness and give a personality to your character.
🔶1. The Goal/ Motivation/Conflict-
Or all three.
In order for your story to propel forwards, after a trigger in the plot your character is put in conflict.
They should have a goal or motivation to accomplishing something.
It could be anything like finding a partner, falling in love with yourself, defeating the villain, saving someone, destroying alien space ship to save the earth, solving a case, catching a criminal, leaving a toxic relationship, moving on from past, etc.
There are countless goals that can make up your character's mind to enter the quest.
Without this, it would seem like they are reckless and strange which seems very stupid to read.
Creating stupid characters making simple decisions and portraying them as a hero or the heroine is stupid in itself. Readers will get a headache.
One famous example is the Indian soap operas. Villain or vamp woman seems like they are just born to destroy the life of female leads. They will poison their glass of milk, perform voodoo, laugh like a maniac, throw them down the stairs, even push them off the cliff and your bubbly, innocent female lead will somehow survive 🤦♀️
Just don't do that. Raise the bars of plot writing. It's in our hands.
🌸Tip- Few strongest motivations are:
Revenge, Happiness(good emotional health), money, safety for the characters and their loved ones), jealousy, thirst for power, to maintaining legacy, etc.🌸
🔶 2. Strengths (inherent and learned)
Every character must have at least one strength. They could be aware of it or maybe not. Like every human being, it makes them unique.
Inherent strength is the strength that they have from birth.
Shiva had brute strength like his father Bahubali.
Harry knew parseltongue ( the language of serpents), Lord Voldemort, too.
Bhallaladeva was cunning.
A child could be good with a business like his parents.
A gifted scientist. Etc
The learned strength is a skill acquired over time of life by the character. It could be a choice which adds a positive trait that they are eager to learn or it could be forced upon them like a child being taught the philosophy of life at an early age which makes them visionary later.
🌸The point above makes a really good villain.🌸
Harry learned spells and charms.
Bahubali was skilled in mathematics and geometry.
⚠ SPOILERS AHEAD! If you have not read my story 'Garden Of Spiders' until now, go check it out in the story section. I will be using it in many examples since I have used very basic methods in it⚠
Christina, the main character of my story, Garden of Spiders, learned to deduce as she began solving cases which also explained why she was still naive.
Art of defense learned by a person to protect himself.
Someone who has grown very patient overtime when they were not before.
Having strength is important because they come handy when your character faces conflicts.
🌸Tip- Every strength doesn't need to come handy in the main motivation. Fred and George Weasley were a funny duo in Harry Potter and served as a relief in many hard situations. It just added a great trait which made them likable.🌸
🌺Like this, if you found it helpful.
🌺Ask me anything or suggest any topic you want me to write upon.
🌺Follow for more.
🌺Tag your friends so they can also learn.
About Me:
Hello, My name is Samiksha Kemwal and I am a 20-year-old college-going student who loves stories soooooooo very much! Ever since I was a child, I loved listening to fairy tales and watching stories in any form. Soon, not just fairy tales, I began relishing any form of the genre. As I grew up, I began reading fiction. My love for novels kept on increasing and I would read anything that I could get my hands upon.
Now, I absolutely enjoy stories in any format.
Written, video games, series, dramas, movies, theatrical, etc. It doesn't have to be in my mother tongue (Hindi) or English.
I like watching international shows/movies too. Korean, Chinese, Japanese(animes too), Pakistani, Turkish, Spanish, Indian regional languages with subtitles.
And now I have decided to write.
It's my dream to write a good story and get it published.
So this me. Trying to reach my dreams step by step. And I would like to take you along with me 😉
© Samiksha Kemwal
#writinghacked #writinglessons #Storywriting #characterwriting #samikshakemwal #trending #newbeginning
I have no formal education in creative writing or literature whatsoever. I learned everything by myself through youtube, reading, research, understanding, and writing away as much as I can. I make a lot of mistakes whether it be grammatical or any other kind. I hope you can point them out and help me correct it so I can learn more. I will try my best to provide you errorless guidance though. I am not going to pretend to know everything because I really don't. I have a lot to discover yet.
Whatever I am going to tell you here is through my own understanding and experience.
Enjoy.
💥Writing Hacked- 8💥
HOW TO WRITE A GOOD STORY
🔸🔸🔸Character Writing🔸🔸🔸
Please check out the previous parts:
a) Writing Hacked (1-6): Plot Writing
b) Writing Hacked 7- Character Writing - Types of characters
🔶When creating a character there are many key points that should be added to make them as much as human or relatable as it is possible. Unless you are writing something else then you do you.
Writers urge you to take a relatable character because readers begin to feel for them through sympathy. They want them to win and admire them for who they are.
Now you know how Cinderella and Harry Potter are the most famous characters because we sympathize with them. They haven't done anything wrong but they face such harsh treatment that it makes readers want to get them what they deserve. In Bahubali, Shiva had been wronged and wanted to avenge the death of his father. This story drives on revenge which is a strong emotion used by many writers since the dawn of literature.
🌸Tip- If you are not aiming for a relatable character, then make them unique. How? I will tell you below🌸
I often come across many bland characters that are behaving as another ordinary human would. They are not even challenged! Where is the fun in that?
👉Key Points to add to your character
Let's learn the key elements to make a good character. They are very basic points that immediately add richness and give a personality to your character.
🔶1. The Goal/ Motivation/Conflict-
Or all three.
In order for your story to propel forwards, after a trigger in the plot your character is put in conflict.
They should have a goal or motivation to accomplishing something.
It could be anything like finding a partner, falling in love with yourself, defeating the villain, saving someone, destroying alien space ship to save the earth, solving a case, catching a criminal, leaving a toxic relationship, moving on from past, etc.
There are countless goals that can make up your character's mind to enter the quest.
Without this, it would seem like they are reckless and strange which seems very stupid to read.
Creating stupid characters making simple decisions and portraying them as a hero or the heroine is stupid in itself. Readers will get a headache.
One famous example is the Indian soap operas. Villain or vamp woman seems like they are just born to destroy the life of female leads. They will poison their glass of milk, perform voodoo, laugh like a maniac, throw them down the stairs, even push them off the cliff and your bubbly, innocent female lead will somehow survive 🤦♀️
Just don't do that. Raise the bars of plot writing. It's in our hands.
🌸Tip- Few strongest motivations are:
Revenge, Happiness(good emotional health), money, safety for the characters and their loved ones), jealousy, thirst for power, to maintaining legacy, etc.🌸
🔶 2. Strengths (inherent and learned)
Every character must have at least one strength. They could be aware of it or maybe not. Like every human being, it makes them unique.
Inherent strength is the strength that they have from birth.
Shiva had brute strength like his father Bahubali.
Harry knew parseltongue ( the language of serpents), Lord Voldemort, too.
Bhallaladeva was cunning.
A child could be good with a business like his parents.
A gifted scientist. Etc
The learned strength is a skill acquired over time of life by the character. It could be a choice which adds a positive trait that they are eager to learn or it could be forced upon them like a child being taught the philosophy of life at an early age which makes them visionary later.
🌸The point above makes a really good villain.🌸
Harry learned spells and charms.
Bahubali was skilled in mathematics and geometry.
⚠ SPOILERS AHEAD! If you have not read my story 'Garden Of Spiders' until now, go check it out in the story section. I will be using it in many examples since I have used very basic methods in it⚠
Christina, the main character of my story, Garden of Spiders, learned to deduce as she began solving cases which also explained why she was still naive.
Art of defense learned by a person to protect himself.
Someone who has grown very patient overtime when they were not before.
Having strength is important because they come handy when your character faces conflicts.
🌸Tip- Every strength doesn't need to come handy in the main motivation. Fred and George Weasley were a funny duo in Harry Potter and served as a relief in many hard situations. It just added a great trait which made them likable.🌸
🌺Like this, if you found it helpful.
🌺Ask me anything or suggest any topic you want me to write upon.
🌺Follow for more.
🌺Tag your friends so they can also learn.
About Me:
Hello, My name is Samiksha Kemwal and I am a 20-year-old college-going student who loves stories soooooooo very much! Ever since I was a child, I loved listening to fairy tales and watching stories in any form. Soon, not just fairy tales, I began relishing any form of the genre. As I grew up, I began reading fiction. My love for novels kept on increasing and I would read anything that I could get my hands upon.
Now, I absolutely enjoy stories in any format.
Written, video games, series, dramas, movies, theatrical, etc. It doesn't have to be in my mother tongue (Hindi) or English.
I like watching international shows/movies too. Korean, Chinese, Japanese(animes too), Pakistani, Turkish, Spanish, Indian regional languages with subtitles.
And now I have decided to write.
It's my dream to write a good story and get it published.
So this me. Trying to reach my dreams step by step. And I would like to take you along with me 😉
© Samiksha Kemwal
#writinghacked #writinglessons #Storywriting #characterwriting #samikshakemwal #trending #newbeginning
