Design a Personality: Is Your Character Optimistic or Pessimistic?
Is your character an optimist or pessimist? The answer can help you to round out your character’s personality and add some juicy conflict to a plot.
Is your character an optimist or pessimist? The answer can help you to round out your character’s personality and add some juicy conflict to a plot.
Emotion is a core part of being human. You experience it every day and you pump your stories full of it.
I’m going to say it straight: shy characters can steal the spotlight just as well as any extraverted character. Oh yes. And all you need to do it is understanding. Let’s start with reactions that are realistic, emotive and visceral at four levels.
The path to forgiveness is pitted with potholes in both the real and fictional worlds. Can your characters let go of their hurt and forgive, or will they let it consume them?
Memories are imperfect things. Easily distorted, manipulated and lost, they make us—and our characters—prone to unreliable reporting of events.