I am slowly working on a not so secret project. My newsletter has been aware of it for a while, but I’m ready to start showing off a little of it here! In addition to the existing workbooks, I’m starting to create some more guided ones as well. The first one will be around character development, and it will include a bunch of my process and how I tend to work with them.
And so, have a sneak peek of what’s inside!
So what exactly is a character?
The Merriam Webster definition is: One of the persons of a drama or novel
I find this definition to be limiting, given that not all characters are people and and not all stories are dramas or novels. Personally, I define a character as:
A personality in a story that can hold a perspective. This is the core of who this character is as a person or woodland creature or supernatural entity. With that as a framework, I’ve found that you can create a more robust character.
A character in a story typically though not always will also have a beginning state and and ending state, or where they are at the beginning of the story and where they end up at the end as a person. Or whatever kind of being you’ve decided to create. And that also goes for if they are dead in the end. These changes happen as a result of the events that you put them through.
