What A New Writer Has To Know About Creating A Character

What A New Writer Has To Know About Creating A Character

What is the soul of a story? Some people say the plot, some others say the characters. I say, it’s both.

But now, I’d like to talk about characters.

How do you create a character?

Here are some ways used by writers out there in creating the characters in their story:

• Go with the flow

Some writers begin with the first few lines. As long as they can get something interesting for the first line, the rest will follow. The character’s personality grows at the same time the writer builds the plot. It is not actually intentionally created. Some writers like this method because, for them, the process of writing is full of magic. It seems like it’s their hands and mind working together in their subconscious mind. This kind of method is normally used by professional or experienced writers

• Concept the details

Some other writers prefer to deeply know the characters. They must know the whole details about this ‘person.’ They make a list of all the details about the characters. The list contains name (full name and how you call them), age (time and date of birth), height, weight, skin, hair and eye color, hair style, parents’, spouse, children and siblings’ name, address, phone number, educational background, job, good and bad habits, favorite food, book, movie and music. For the previous type of writer mentioned above, this method might seem boring. It seems like all the excitement is gone with the list. But for those preferring this method, it is a good way to build the story, along with the plot.

• Use someone they know

Some other writers prefer to just use a figure they know. They use all basic information about the model, their life, their job, their personality, etc. This is the less creative way in constructing a character.

Try one of those three tips that you feel most comfortable with. Or, try all three then decide which suits you most.

BONUS : What Are Articles

The literature explains articles to be a collection of words written in neat paragraphs on particular topics. Articles are basically written to give a glimpse of the topics that are discussed. There are millions of articles that are found on the web once you start searching for it. The best example would be searching for information. When you go into a particular website to search for a topic that you would like to have more information on, you type in the work in the search window and wait to be presented with thousands of articles related to the same keyword that you have typed into the box.

This is just one of the possibilities of the internet that has made access to information easier than ever before. Articles are being searched by internet users on every possible topic for use in any field. Like information to prepare for a presentation, information to write to articles for monthly magazines and local dailies. There are umpteen numbers of reasons and these articles written out by various authors stand out as the billboards of information. The articles also provide useful information on the requested topics. Increasingly even students seem to be taking to the internet searching for articles to complete their course work.

There is however a downside to this strategy though. One cannot verify the facts given in the articles unless it is from a known source. For example, anybody can write up an article stating that there is life on the moon and host in their website. Now a child when it is searching for information to write about the existence of life in the universe will come across this website displaying fictional information about the existence of life on the moon. This will lead to false information being displayed on the screen and hence confusing the child with the basics. There is no particular method to regulate these articles on the net and this makes the situation quite like a cat on the wall.

All set aside if you look for the literal meaning of an article, it can be described as short pieces of paragraphs that are published in a larger publications like magazines, newspapers and of late in the internet websites. Articles are meant to provide in-depth information on current research or any other news stories. If you were looking for dependable information then you would be looking at scholarly articles that are written by the scholars and reviewed by their peers. This will assure of the dependability of the information that is made available to you.