Writing Internal Characters

Posted on September 29th, 2010 in Writing by Taffy

What can you do to make your internal characters better?

Internal Characters:

What is the primary internal goal of your character? Love? Power? Security? Revenge?

What is the secondary goal of your character? Love? Power? etc.

What is the motivating fear? The character is equally driven by fear and goals. FEAR fuels action toward Primary goal.

What is the point of change? The goal changed OR the character realizes they were wrong OR they act against their nature to accomplish goal.

What is the conclusion? Goal is achieved OR goal is not achieved.

What did the character learn? About themselves or someone else or the world? It all reflects on the characters growth.

How is the character stronger in the end?

NOW!

Make a thirty word summary of the internal character THEN a two hundred word summary and see where you are in your story.