Advice on creating great characters

by Gayle Bentham
8th January 2012

I'm working on a young adult novel and my two main characters are two brothers. Does anyone have any good tips for making characters that readers can connect with?

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Hi take a look at your characters and see what their vulnebilities are and them see how they would respond, ie to insults, what whould they do, to dissapiontments, the more you can work out how they would react they by default build up into a real person with centain values, or no values depending! hope this helps Caralinda

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Caralinda Quinlan
10/01/2012

It's a bit of a negative kind of advice, but try not to base them on people you know; you'll end up with real faces/voices/names associated with characters where you maybe really don't want them.

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09/01/2012

Because you create them based on your own....experience, let's say, characters end up with bits of you inside them. Or they should do, otherwise they won't feel real. Which is fine, as long as you don't mind complete strangers being able to peek into your soul.

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