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Category Archives: Characters

Character Flaws & Blank White Cards

by Eva, in category Characters, Lady Writer, Writing Worksheets
Writing Character Flaws Worksheet

Character flaws are an interesting topic; far more involved than I had at first realised! The other day, I was sitting in the Lady Writers League study, drafting a Heroine Frame for myself — a Heroine Frame, in case you don’t know, is our one-page framework for character development — when Sir George appeared at… Read More

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Character Arc Plot & Kurt Vonnegut’s Story Shapes

by Eva, in category Characters, Writing Worksheets
Character Arc Development & Kurt Vonnegut's Story Shapes

A character arc is a simple way to visualise your character’s progress through the story, whether it’s a binary comparison of their beginning and end states, or a point-by-point graph of their emotional ups and downs… Last week we studied how characters change, and this week’s worksheet offers a simple method for visualising that change.… Read More

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How Characters Change

by Eva, in category Characters, Writing Worksheets
How Characters Change - Writing Worksheet

Most stories describe a character’s transformation from one state to another, and over time, storytellers have developed plot formulas to help them understand how characters change and how this change can be related to an audience.

In general these formulas guide the character through the following steps…

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Protagonist / Antagonist Worksheet

by Eva, in category Characters, Writing Worksheets
How to Create an Antagonist Fast

Antagonists are a simple way to introduce conflict into a story, and the quickest way to create an antagonist who will fit in with the protagonist’s plot, is to consider their relationship.

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Character Introductions

by Eva, in category Characters, Writing Worksheets
How to Introduce a Character

This worksheet offers a very simple formula to help you decide how your character will meet your audience. Imagine you, your character, and your reader are attending a party together. How would you introduce your character? What would you want the reader to know, and how could you communicate this information for best effect?

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