Write character sheets for your characters.
The character’s name
A one-sentence summary of the character’s storyline
The character’s motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?)
The character’s goal (what does he/she want concretely?)
The character’s conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?)
The character’s epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change?
Expand the one-sentence summary into a one-paragraph summary of the character’s storyline
What you love about characters? Who are your favorite characters and why?
The character’s name
A one-sentence summary of the character’s storyline
The character’s motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?)
The character’s goal (what does he/she want concretely?)
The character’s conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?)
The character’s epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change?
Expand the one-sentence summary into a one-paragraph summary of the character’s storyline
What you love about characters? Who are your favorite characters and why?
What do you hate about characters? Who are your least favorite characters and why?
(And I don't mean your favorite characters to hate, but the characters you find boring, uninteresting, you wish didn't exist. Find out why, so that you can avoid making that mistake.)
Remember the characters' development arcs.
I seriously recommend Randy Ingermanson's How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method, if you can find it. The homepage gives you all the necessary information, but the book really made me understand what he means. He explains his method as a story of Goldilocks who wanted to write a novel, but all she had was "The", so she went to a writing convention and joined a class lead by Baby Bear - he leads you through all the steps using Goldilocks' novel as the example, and it's so inspiring and informative - works for me :-D
Remember the characters' development arcs.
I seriously recommend Randy Ingermanson's How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method, if you can find it. The homepage gives you all the necessary information, but the book really made me understand what he means. He explains his method as a story of Goldilocks who wanted to write a novel, but all she had was "The", so she went to a writing convention and joined a class lead by Baby Bear - he leads you through all the steps using Goldilocks' novel as the example, and it's so inspiring and informative - works for me :-D
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