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The Character’s Resume

Make sure that you make your characters appear as realistic as possible by designating him with distinct details on his personal life. An effective way is making your own character resume where you can fill in important information. Besides the information required in the standard resume, you can also include some queries commonly found in autographs such as his hobbies or recreations, personal qualities, ambitions, most painful experience, most meaningful experience, preferences in food, drink, art, music, literature, clothing, or you can also include his attitudes towards life and death. You can also provide information on the character’s philosophy in his life. Making a character’s resume will sure help you get ideas on what events to put in your plot that will enlighten the readers of the character’s motivation and his personal qualities. This is also an important part of your project bible in order to achieve consistency throughout the whole story.

Characters’ Dialogues

Dialogue has to sound like an actual verbal conversation between the characters and not just a record of texts. A Good dialogue is important for several reasons:

• To reveal to the readers what kind of characters are in your story.
• To enhance the readers’ experience as well as give them knowledge on the distinctive manner of oral communication, language and regularity of the specific kinds of people that exist on the time and place the story is set.
• To let the readers know important information that will make the story sensible
• To show how people make use of speech in controlling others – what factors make them succeed or fail to do so; thus ending up building conflicts between the characters.

These are things to consider that can endanger your characters’ dialogue:

• Applying too much realism to discourse: “Well, uh, um, y’know”
• Using spellings that are unusual: Using “Yeh” or “Ya” instead of “Yeah”
• Using speech indicators too often such as “he said,” “she said”
  Frequent change of discourse of characters distinguished by the use of indicators such as “he affirmed,” “she retorted”
• Exaggeration of vernacular for example is the use of words such as “Miz Scahlut,” “us’s wuhkin’jes’so fas.’”
• Using direct address more than what is necessary: “I would like to hear, Daniel, what you think of Jessica.” “I despise her, John.” “Why is that, Daniel?” “She intimidates everyone around her, John.”