In my head my character is exactly how I want them to be but when I put them into a storyline they seem to fail somehow, nothing like the one in my head. I'm doing something wrong but can't pin point where it begins to go wrong. Help!
In my head my character is exactly how I want them to be but when I put them into a storyline they seem to fail somehow, nothing like the one in my head. I'm doing something wrong but can't pin point where it begins to go wrong. Help!
Thank you Adrian all advice is massively appreciated I need all the help I can get, will sit down and write the whole of my character's personality loves, hates, flaws, moods etc. Then I will have to make sure I refer to this through the whole storyline hopefully it will work.
Elsie, you need to be in the head of your character when they speak and act. Play the scene involving one or more characters in your mind before you start writing. Focus the readers like and dislike in your characters. You can do this by showing what they think and say about each other. I lay down on the sofa and use my imagination to visualise the scene I want to write.
To define and individualise characters you need to know about them beforehand. Joanne Harris and Malorie Blackman write a synopsis about each of their characters.
What makes each character uniquely different from each other? What is their gender, age, ethnicity, race, class. What type of person are they? For example, a character may be greedy, generous, rich, poor spiteful, caring,, honourable, dishonest, rude, well-mannered, educated, illiterate. I could go on.
For example, Elianor is sensible, Marianne is over-emotional, Macbeth is ambitious.
Thanks Andrew it could quite possibly be the same thing. My main character seems to go either boring or turn into a completely different character somehow. Will have to go back to the beginning re-read and do some serious analysing of the storyline to get some perspective back.