Character creation and design creating your character, basic principles on how to do it
Physical appearance: Describe your character's hair, eye, skin color, clothing fashion-style, and whatever else is most important to you. This will help your readers-audience to visualize your character.
Personality: What is your character like, and how do they act around other characters? You should also think about your character's goals, motives, and desires.
Do not make it super-powerful, and almost perfect, as no one likes a character with no flaws.
Likes and dislikes: What sorts of things does your character like and dislike/fear? It could be as simple as a love for chocolate and a fear of spiders. It could be as complex as having a hobby (ie: painting) and having a fear (ie: being abandoned).
Skills and talents: Everyone is good at something, and your character should too! Same way, everyone is not so good at something else, as such your character should too! It might be a good idea to include something your character is bad at in order to make them more believable and vulnerable, to keep them more realistic and authentic.
Once again, do not make it perfect and super-powerful, usually, such characters are not very liked and not very popular, even as heroes, still they shouldn't be with no flaws.
Backstory: This will root your character in the fictional world of your setting. It will give it a history, a time frame, an existence, an upbringing from something that was before he became what it is now when you're introducing your character to the plot. You will need to consider your character's history, family life, occupation, and so forth.
Relationships with other characters Relatives if any, friendlies versus hostiles, enemies versus allies, friends, and acquaintances, the levels of interactions, how often, how in style, heated versus apathetic, cooperative and collaborative versus argumentative and counterproductive, anyway will fit best for your storytelling goals, but take it into consideration and plan accordingly.
Realism and authenticity: Make your character believable and realistic. In any fictional or non-fictional world, flawless characters, usually have a notoriously bad reputation and are extremely frowned upon.
Positive vs. Negative traits: Always create your character with both positive and negative traits. If you choose 3 positive traits, make sure you have at least one negative trait. If you choose 5 positive traits, make sure you have 2 negative traits.
For example, your character is smart but too shy to speak up and show off its intelligence.
You could add a fun quirk or two! Characters that have unusual approaches to solving problems, odd habits, or strange mannerisms can make your character compelling and interesting to your readers-audience.
Make it distinct, stand out Add something unique and special to your character, either a piece of clothing, a hat, some sunglasses, or a way of dressing, or a special unique custom weapon, or car, or whatever else you choose to make it unique to your character.
Regardless if your character is a protagonist in your story, the hero or the villain, or a supporting character, or just a passing by in a short scene character, take some time to create and design your character as you envision it best in your world in your setting.
If you are creating a character for your world setting, try to blend it into your world as much as possible, build-up your character, as you see will fit best with your world where the action, the plot is taking place.
Source: - creative writing various courses basic rules compiled - role-play writing exercises in building characters
creating your character, basic principles on how to do it
Physical appearance:
Describe your character's hair, eye, skin color, clothing fashion-style, and whatever else is most important to you.
This will help your readers-audience to visualize your character.
Personality:
What is your character like, and how do they act around other characters?
You should also think about your character's goals, motives, and desires.
Do not make it super-powerful, and almost perfect, as no one likes a character with no flaws.
Likes and dislikes:
What sorts of things does your character like and dislike/fear?
It could be as simple as a love for chocolate and a fear of spiders.
It could be as complex as having a hobby (ie: painting) and having a fear (ie: being abandoned).
Skills and talents:
Everyone is good at something, and your character should too!
Same way, everyone is not so good at something else, as such your character should too!
It might be a good idea to include something your character is bad at in order to make them more believable and vulnerable, to keep them more realistic and authentic.
Once again, do not make it perfect and super-powerful, usually, such characters are not very liked and not very popular, even as heroes, still they shouldn't be with no flaws.
Backstory:
This will root your character in the fictional world of your setting.
It will give it a history, a time frame, an existence, an upbringing from something that was before he became what it is now when you're introducing your character to the plot.
You will need to consider your character's history, family life, occupation, and so forth.
Relationships with other characters
Relatives if any, friendlies versus hostiles, enemies versus allies, friends, and acquaintances, the levels of interactions, how often, how in style, heated versus apathetic, cooperative and collaborative versus argumentative and counterproductive, anyway will fit best for your storytelling goals, but take it into consideration and plan accordingly.
Realism and authenticity:
Make your character believable and realistic.
In any fictional or non-fictional world, flawless characters, usually have a notoriously bad reputation and are extremely frowned upon.
Positive vs. Negative traits:
Always create your character with both positive and negative traits.
If you choose 3 positive traits, make sure you have at least one negative trait.
If you choose 5 positive traits, make sure you have 2 negative traits.
For example, your character is smart but too shy to speak up and show off its intelligence.
You could add a fun quirk or two!
Characters that have unusual approaches to solving problems, odd habits, or strange mannerisms can make your character compelling and interesting to your readers-audience.
Make it distinct, stand out
Add something unique and special to your character, either a piece of clothing, a hat, some sunglasses, or a way of dressing, or a special unique custom weapon, or car, or whatever else you choose to make it unique to your character.
Regardless if your character is a protagonist in your story, the hero or the villain, or a supporting character, or just a passing by in a short scene character, take some time to create and design your character as you envision it best in your world in your setting.
If you are creating a character for your world setting, try to blend it into your world as much as possible, build-up your character, as you see will fit best with your world where the action, the plot is taking place.
Source:
- creative writing various courses basic rules compiled
- role-play writing exercises in building characters