how do you build a character?

Telstar · Sep 24, 2009

I don't build characters, I create people

But a bio can be useful nonetheless for the major ones to remember important facts.

Libbie · Sep 24, 2009

Danthia said:
I figure out what their problem is, what their flaws are, and what their hopes and dreams are and then throw them into a ton of trouble to see what they'll do. Physical descriptions are the last thing I worry about, since that doesn't say anything abut who they are. I need to really know my character before I can write them well, since most of their troubles will come from the choices they make.

QFT.

kaitie · Sep 24, 2009

I don't. They live in my head and I follow them around. But really, there is no character building or planning. They might start as a name or a feeling or sometimes just a single line, but I just see someone and I just know them. Typically the people around them pop out just as easily. The only things I ever have to think on occasionally is the name.

how do you build a character?

Telstar

I create people

Libbie

Worst song played on ugliest guitar

kaitie

With great power comes