![]() A flaw doesn’t just appear, it’s the result of something that happened in a character’s past. You see, you’re not just giving them a flaw, you’re giving them life. Giving a character a ‘flaw’ sounds easier than it really is. I’ve recently bought two books that really help with creating characters. Today, let’s look at the characters themselves. I’ve already written about combining character arcs and plots. The character has a flaw, which he or she slowly overcomes during the story an arc that reaches a climax near the end of the book.īut then what? How do you think of a flaw? What other traits should you add to the character to round them out? How do you tie that into the story? Most books describe creating characters as an offshoot of the plot: the story you’re trying to tell must match the characters. For us lesser mortals, creating a character is more work. Some writers might have characters that spring from their minds wholly finished, much like Athena was born whole from Zeus’s forehead. Two tools that can help are the positive and negative trait thesauruses. ![]() Writing a great story starts with thinking up great characters. ![]()
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