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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.”

Novel Writer for Hire

Although there have been noted who have successfully used the technique of exposition such as Lloyd Abbey in his novel “The Last Whales” and Gabriel Garca Marquez”, it requires great skill that only few have come off.

For novice writers and some professionals who do not have enough of that skill, have to dramatically present information rather than “exposit” them. The characters and their emotions should be dramatized in order to keep the readers lively.

ELEMENTS OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

The kinds of characters that you introduce play an important role in the success of your story. Freelance novelists need to make them complex but believable. There are several ways on how freelance novelists can build them up.

1. Substantiality. Freelance fiction writers need to make the characters as real as possible by conveying to the readers information about them that will also be beneficial for the development of the story. Examples of these particularized facts are possessions, a specific residence, medical records, his personal preferences and opinions.
2. Using symbolism to reveal the character’s nature. It is appropriate to relate the character’s nature with objects or settings in your plot even though the readers may not instantly comprehend. According to Northrop Frye using symbols can be knowingly “archetypal” which means a writer is representing or constituting an original type, the writer’s character in this case, after which other similar things are patterned; this refers to comparable characters in the world of literature. It is also possible to use symbolism in a manner that readers may not willfully comprehend. Using characters’ names is a classic means of achieving symbolic associations although it is now commonly applied only in comic or ironic writing and seldom in other forms of modern fiction.
3. Verbal Communication. The content and manner of the verbal communication of each of the characters in your story, helps suggest to the readers the personality of your characters, whether a character is assertive and blunt, quiet and reserved, flirtatious or funny. Avoid letting your character speak in such a way that readers presume him as part of a classification of people. In this way, prejudice can be avoided. His speech should effectively reveal to the readers his social and ethnic background. In turn, the character’s manner of speaking should be justifiable by his background.
4. Conduct. The actions of your character should be in harmony to his attributes that the writer has brought into the minds of their readers since the beginning of the story. However, his actions should also reveal a new aspect of his personality through writing down events that will serve as opportunities to stress his behavior.
5. Stimulus and Drive. The fiction freelancer should let the readers believe that all the actions of their character are justifiable. Not only that, they should not sound so far-fetched that readers lose their suspension of disbelief.
6. Transformation. People usually respond to experiences by making an intimate transformation or avoiding this transformation. All the conflicts and struggles should be instrumental in causing a development in the character’s personality. If there is no such development, the readers should learn what hindered the character from growing.