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How to easily Create Believable Fictional Characters
“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.” ― Joss Whedon
6 min readDec 16, 2019
- There are no rules — stop trying to nail down writing with rules
- Your character must have a burning desire to achieve something important.
- Readers must be able to understand why the character wants to reach their goal.
The above are not rules, just things that you shouldn’t ignore.
Fictional characters are everywhere in the world of books. We love them, follow them in book series, T.V. series, and go back and watch favorite films about our most compelling characters.
How to Create Great Characters
As writers we must create characters and we naturally want them to be as a good as, or unique as, the ones we find within the pages of any of the great stories we read.
Forget Rules, Follow your Character
As beginners we don’t know a thing about character development, or how to write a story. We look for rules to follow, or at least some kind of structure that we can use to help us think about our characters in the story.
