Writing For All

Character Development

Character development is always tricky. Depending on what place character has in the story, that's usually how much development you have for them.

Sometimes you just want to spit everything out at once, flesh the entire character out and give every possible detail there is to know about them. You have to keep some stuff to yourself though. What I suggest is, have a friend that you share everything with. Just one person that you tell everything to. Possible plots of your story, character backgrounds, personalities; that way you don't accidentally spill everything in the actual story.

And the thing with writing characters is that you can't force them to do things. If you're writing and you're having to tell the character to do something, you might want to rethink the scene a little bit. The characters should act on their own. They should be able to have that kind of life to them that they do what/how they like.

Characters are cool though, because you have the ability to throw them into a situation that you know will set them off so other characters will see another side of them, or something like that. I don't know about you, but I enjoy being the complete overlord of the worlds in my writing.

Let the discussion commence