Exercise: Your Character's Distinct Voice by MissLunaRose, literature
Literature
Exercise: Your Character's Distinct Voice
The purpose of this exercise is to see how much you've differentiated each of your main characters' voices from each other.
How to Use
Pick a few major characters in your story. (I recommend using between 3 and 6.) For each of the numbered prompts below, choose what each character would say in that circumstance. You may want to write a few sentences of dialogue from that character or a quick internal monologue.
These lines are meant to generate short pieces of dialogue (about 1-5 sentences), as it's easiest to compare lines to each other that way. If you start writing long paragraphs or another character's reply to your character, then sto
Advanced CHARACTER Creation by OokamiKasumi, literature
Literature
Advanced CHARACTER Creation
Advanced CHARACTER Creation ~ for Fiction
Hero ~ Villain ~ Ally
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There are three essential characters in every story. There may be any number of side characters, but in traditional Adventures, and Romances of every stripe (erotic or not,) the main conflict is usually, if not always, a TRIANGLE of complimentary opposites.
Translation: You could tell the whole story with ONLY these Three Characters; perhaps not with any real detail, but you could still do the entire basic plotline.
THREE Characters?
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I'm sure you're familiar with the names Hero & Villain or Antagonist & Protagonist already. Those are pre
