The Emperor's Musings

Welcome back to another issue of C3. Last time, we went a little into how we shouldn’t write one-sided characters. This issue however, we’ll look at a few things you can do to actually create an effective character. I mentioned before that one of the best ways was to hang around other people. One way to take this further is to hang around your character. No, I am not telling you that you need to suddenly develop multiple personalities or even become schizophrenic (although that would produce very interesting characters) in order to write effective characters.
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Well on to character writing. This is not meant in any way to be a be-all-end-all rulebook, but rather a general rule of the thumb that will help you get started on writing characters that really work. It’s very hard to look at what should be done in creating characters, so let’s work backwards. In this issue, we’ll look at a major crime in creating characters: one-dimensional characters.

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