Characteristics of Realistic Fiction

• Realistic fiction stories tend to take place in the present or recent past.
• Characters are involved in events that could happen.
• Characters live in places that could be or are real.
• The characters seem like real people with real issues solved in a realistic way.

8 Tips for Character Development

1. Establish a character’s motivations and goals.
2. Choose a voice.
3. Do a slow reveal.
4. Create conflict.
5. Give important characters a backstory.
6. Describe a character’s personality in familiar terms.
7. Paint a physical picture of your characters.
8. Develop secondary characters.

what is their purpose? It’s always important to remember that your character must feel real, they must be someone who thinks and acts on their own; they have their own weaknesses and strengths, their way of living, ideas and feelings.

8 ways to make your characters come vividly to life

1. Draw on people you know. Some of the best characters come from the people around you.
2. Surprise us. Does your lawyer need to be white, male and middle class?
3. give them contradictions. Strong characters show strong contradictions.
4. give them goals.
5. give them flaws.
6. give them strengths.
7. find their picture.
8. hear their voices.

1. Know Your Character. Develop A Thorough Backstory. Examine Your Character’s Personality. Envision The Appearance Of Your Characters.
2. Write Your Character Into The Story. Develop Interior Dialogue. Create Authentic Dialogue. Dive Into The Action.
3. Don’t Make Them Boring!
4. Find Your Characters In The People Around You.

Creating a Well-developed OC

1. Get the term “Mary Sue” out of your head right now before reading this.
2. Don’t name the character after you.
3. Try not to make up a name.
4. Keep the fandom/settings in mind.
5. Meanings are important, but let’s not take it too far.
6. Multiple names…?
7. Modesty, let’s not go overboard now.