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13 tips to Write More Realistic and Stronger Characters
Great fiction writing needs great characters.
Any fiction book worth it’s salt has brilliant characters.
Characters are often the spine of the narrative, the meat on the bones of the plot and they can personify subliminal themes or reflect traits of the authors personality.
Characterisation and writing for characters is an important skill for any good fiction writer and the most famous works of fiction have equally famous characters.
Of Mice and Men, think Lennie and George, The Toy Story — Buzz and Woody, Great Expectations — Pip and Miss Havisham; the list is endless.
Great fiction, needs great characters. Period.
But writing awesome characters takes skill and craft, it takes practice and focus but most importantly it takes humanity and the extraction of emotion.
To make a character seem real, they have to be just that — real. Their traits, feelings, goals, pleasures and dislikes need to be realistic, they need to resonate with your reader.
So, without further ado here are the best writing tips for writing characters.
- Give your a character a goal
