Simple Tricks to Improve Your Writing [With Cover Tips!]

Characterization and Developement ✔

Characterization- the act of making characters seem realistic enough to be in real life.

Character development- making characters actually affected by events and maturing their personalities.

Characterization tips-

To make characters seem real, they have to have good and bad traits. They need more than a name, looks, and a backstory.

You need to get to their personal portfolio.

There are so many questions that can help you make your character real. Little bits of information about their everyday lives.

There are so many questions, and they're all listed in this book:

https://my.w.tt/nc4OT6SXST

It really helps make characters realistic, and have depth.

After finishing this chapter, answer all of those questions of you want a good character.

Or have a boring, basic one. Your choice.

Character development-

Without having character development, your story could be like this:
Sorry if offensive

9/11 has no affect on people whatsoever and they continued with their everyday lives, thinking it's fine.
Or
The Holocaust did not scare millions of Jews and they did not live in fear. They acted like it was a normal thing afterwards.

No.

9/11 and the Holocaust had major effects on people.

And big events should have effects on your characters, too.

An excellent example is:
Ravenpaw in the Warriors series by Erin Hunter was even more jumpy and cautious than before after witnessing Tigerclaw murder Redtail or Oakheart (I forget)

People don't just go like, "I just saw somebody murdered, but I'm fine. It's all good".

People aren't like that.

Think, how would I be affected if I saw/experienced [your event here]?

I'm going to leave it at that. Go look at those Characterization questions now!

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You can always PM me your event, and I can tell you how a character could react.

Thanks for staying with me!