A (hopefully) helpful guide to anime writers who aspire to write awesome and successful fanfiction.
Here you'll be learning:
✒ How to get a story idea
✒ How to make a good character
✒ Learning character development
✒ How to avoid cliches in both cha...
This lesson is dedicated to dolliie and NARUMIYAS who requested this!
Hello guys! Sorry for the occasional updates, but I hope you guys! If you have questions about the lessons, clarifications, and such, feel free to comment and tag my name. If you have any lesson requests, don't be shy to comment them, loves :))
This is a combination of separate lessons, one is how to get started and the other on how to make sure that your OC doesn't get out of place in the story.
Lesson 9 || Technicals 101
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Okay, so this sort of process is really different for a lot of people. Some may not go through the same rigorous process as I am, though there are others who might be even more rigorous or meticulous. But this is the part where you sit down and understand your OCs and your story itself. The problem with a lot of the books I've read through the years is either it's evident the author is just playing the story by ear or the character by ear. In other words, they didn't really lay out a solid foundation or it could be they thought it was solid but along the way they realize it isn't as solid as they originally thought it would be.
But who knows, haha.
We'll go through this step by step, and this is probably going to be the shortest lesson I'll have in this book.
Let's start with your OC and the rest of the cast. Here are the questions you need to have answers to when finalizing your OC.
1) Who is your OC?
(Name aside, who are they as a person? What's their role in society? Who are they to the people around them? Friend? Foe? Lover? Nobody? Who are they in the story? A hero? Villain? A gray type character? Zero to hero? Hero to zero?)
2) What's their personality?
(What's their morals, beliefs, ideals, how do they behave? What type of character are they, i.e. tsundere, himedere, dandere, yandere, etc. Are they cold or warm? Boring? Funny?)
3) What's their goal?
(What are their dreams or ambitions, what are they trying to achieve or prove? Are they trying to make someone fall in love with them, are they trying to find their destiny and who they want to be in life? Are they trying to find someone or themselves?)
4) What's their struggle?
(Insecurity? Weakness? What's blocking them from their goal, is it themselves or someone else? Who is their enemy/antagonist of the story whether major or minor, character development-wise, story-wise)
5) What's special about them?
(What makes them stand out? Talents? Flaws? Strengths? Weird characterizations whether personality-wise, skill-wise, mental-wise, physical-wise?)
