Writing: How To Build A Character In Your Book
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Writing: How To Build A Character In Your Book
Russell Celyn Jones (Published writer. Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MA Programme at Birkbeck College (University of London).) gives expert video advice on: How do I build a character?
How do I build a character?
How you build characters tends to start with their physicalities, so you would make notes on how they are dressed, what they look like, the color of their hair, the color of their eyes, and then, probably what they do for a living. If you look at most fiction, characters have jobs, and out of the jobs come their voices and preoccupations, and very often their conflicts, the family connections, the history, how old they are, where they live, their culture, their nationality. All of these things are very important, and are built gradually as you go into the novel, and the deeper you write, the more youll find out about your characters anyway.