Characters

We’re going to be holding a session dedicated to characters – how to get to know them and develop them with some depth in a story.

We’ll be looking at character profiles: what information you should know about your characters to give them some, well, actual character. The more you know about them (up to a point), the easier it is to write from their perspective, to develop their filter for the writing. And readers love characters, so paying attention to getting them right seems to make sense.

While drawing up a template for a character profile, I kept the most important two points at the top. On re-reading it I thought these might come across as a little patronising, like it’s a given with writers and their characters, and I am in fact banging on about that most obsolete of lessons: sucking eggs.

What is their Story goal?

What…