Blog post 10

On Friday we learned the essential facts about characters, basically meaning the qualities the character should hold. First thing is that they must be real or believable you don’t want the audience to loss interest in your writing because the characters seem fake. Being real and believable doesn’t mean that they can’t be unique; you don’t want them to be cliché or generic. Make the characters to have special qualities that make them different to others. Next you must make the characters someone the audience can connect with, you don’t want to write about a billionaire playboy when your audience is made of middleclass teenage girls, the characters must also have emotions that the reader can relate to. Finally the character must want some sort of power he or she must have a goal or motivation for their actions. Those are the essential facts about characters.

Now to go along with making the character believable you must do fact checks. If your character is a race car driver and you don’t know anything about racing then that’s going to hurt your characters story line. If you need to know and acquire more knowledge don’t be afraid to ask someone who does know about the subject. Learn the jargon and procedures about your characters background. If you didn’t learn much from the expert then do some research online or through books.

Thats what we learned about essentail facts and characters.