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Resource Dump: Creating Characters!

Primary Characters

• Your Hero: Top Ten Rules
• 10 Traits of a Great Protagonist
• 4 Steps to Creating a Truly Active Protagonist
• 20 Tips for Creating Relatable Protagonists
• How to Center your Story
• How to Create Unforgettable Protagonists
• 25 Things You Should Know About Protagonists
• Creating Memorable Characters
• Creating Strong Female Protagonists
• Creating Dynamic Protagonists
• How to Create Characters
• Inner Dialogue – Writing Inner Character Thoughts
• 25 Things a Great Character Needs
• 5 Ways to Create 3D Characters

Secondary Characters

• 10 Secrets to Creating Unforgettable Supporting Characters
• How to Write Effective Supporting Characters
• Question to Ask (& Strengthen) Your Minor Characters
• 5 Tips for Developing Supporting Characters
• Techniques for Creating Great Secondary Characters
• 5 Steps to Dazzling Minor Characters
• 3 Ways to Create Stupendous Supporting Characters
• Creating Memorable Secondary Characters
• 5 Archetypes for Supporting Characters
• Your Map to Creating a Memorable Minor Characters

Names

• Top Ten Tips
• 8 Tips for Naming Characters
• 7 Rules of Naming Fictional Characters
• Name that Character!
• 6 Creative Ways to Name your Character
• Naming your Characters
• A Guide to Naming Characters
• Female: 1 | 2 | 3
• Male: 1 | 2 | 3
• Alien: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
• Surname: 1 | 2 | 3 
• Unisex: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Traits

• List: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
• Developing Character Traits
• How to Create Good Personalities for your Characters
• Develop Memorable Personalities
• Give your Character Personality
• How to Create a Character’s Personality
• How to Make Sure your Character’s Personality Shines
• 5 Building Blocks of your Character’s Personality

Appearance

• Appearance Generator
• Your Character’s Physical Appearance
• How to Describe a Character’s Looks
• Describing a Character’s Appearance
• Character Description Resource
• Examples of Physical Characteristics
• Describing the Physical Attributes of your Characters
• How Great Authors Describe Character Appearance
• Ultimate Guide to Nailing your Character’s Appearance
• Describing Clothing and Appearance
• Character Appearance Help
• Character Description Resource
• Describing People: A Person’s Physical Appearance
• Describing the Physical Attributes of Characters

Speech

• Talking About your Character: Speech
• Variety in Character Voices
• All your Characters Talk the Same
• How to Create Distinctive Character Voices
• How to Create Characters Who Don’t Sound like You
• The Art of Voice in Fiction
• Create Varying, Yet Realistic, Speech Patterns
• The Art and Craft of Dialogue
• Writing Character Voice
• Creating Differences in the Speech Patterns of your Characters
• Style: Person and Speech
• Dialects: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Backstory

• Building Better Backstories
• Basic Tips to Create Better Characters with Tragic Backstories
• How to Write a Backstory
• Writing Characters Using Conflict and Backstory
• Backstory Description Generator
• Questions to Create Character Backstory
• How to Weave in Backstory to Reveal Character
• Nail your Character’s Backstory
• How to Write Backstory Without Putting your Reader to Sleep
• How to Write a Killer Backstory

Diversity

• How to Make Young Adult Fiction More Diverse
• Writing People of Color
• A Few Tips and Resources for Writing Characters of Colour
• Writing Characters of Colour Tastefully
• Writing With Colour
• 7 Offensive Mistakes Well-Intentioned Writers Make
• Writing Characters of Colour
• Describing Characters of Colour

Gender

• Female: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
• Male: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
• Transgender: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
• Non-Binary: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Sexuality

• Main Character Sexuality
• On Writing LGBTQ Characters: 1 | 2
• Writing Gay Characters
• Guide to LGBT YA
• Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes
• Writing Bisexual Characters: 1 | 2

• Writing Asexual Characters: 1 | 2
• Pansexual & Demisexual Characters
• How to Write Gay, Bisexual and Pansexual Characters

Introduction

• Introducing a Character
• Introducing your Main Character
• Do’s and Don’ts for Introducing your Protagonist
• First Impressions
• How to Introduce a Character
• How Not to Introduce a Main Character
• Introducing the Protagonist

Development

• Character Development
• 9 Ingredients of Character Development
• Characterisation 1 – Character Development
• How to Develop a Character for a Story
• Character Development
• Character Development Drives Conflict
• Developing your Characters and Making them Interesting

Relationships

• How to Write Strong Character Relationships
• Character Relationships
• 3 Keys to Developing Character Relationships
• The Secret Behind Great Character Relationships
• 3 Tips for Character Relationships
• Building Believable Relationships
• Sibling: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
• Platonic: 1 | 2 | 3
• Romantic: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Strengths

• Identifying your Character’s Strengths
• Character Strengths and Weaknesses
• Introducing the 24 Character Strengths
• Character Strengths and Virtues List
• Strengths and Weaknesses
• A Balance of Strengths

Flaws

• 123 Ideas for Character Flaws
• DarkWorld RPG Flaws List
• Character Flaws
• Ten Ugliest Character Flaws
• The Four Types of Character Flaws
• On Giving Flaws and Weaknesses
• Character Flaw Index

Goal

• Why your Character’s Goal Needs to be 1 of these 5 Things
• Goals Define the Plot
• Goal Setting for You and your Character
• How to Explore you Character’s Motivation
• 4 Ways to Motivate Character and Plot
• Motivation

By Genre

• Fantasy: 1 | 2 | 3
• Sci-Fi: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
• Romance: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
• Thrillers: 1 | 2 
• Horror: 1 | 2 | 3

Heroes

• Your Hero: Top Ten Rules
• How to Write your Own Hero Story
• What Makes a Great Hero?
• Creating Heroes and Heroines
• Write a Story about a Hero
• How to Create an Antihero that Readers Love
• Heroes vs. Anti-Heroes
• Create a Super Hero
• How to Create a Brand New Iconic Hero or Villain
• What Makes a Hero

Villains

• How to Create a Credible Villain in Fiction
• How to Make a Purely Evil Villain Interesting
• 9 Evil Examples of the Villain Archetype
• How Not to Create a Villain
• Creating Villains People Love to Hate
• 3 Techniques for Crafting a Better Villain
• Basic Tips to Write Better & More Despicable Villains
• Writing Tips for Creating a Complex Villain
• How to Create a Great Villain

Do’s & Don’ts

• Do’s and Dont’s of Writing a Good Character
• How to Create a Character
• Characterisation Dos and Dont’s
• Female Characters of Do’s and Dont’s
• Do’s and Dont’s of Dialect

Helpful Writing Blogs

• fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment*
• writeworld
• referenceforwriters
• thewritingcafe
• aquestionofcharacter *
• writingwithcolor
• fuckyeah-char-dev
• dailycharacterdevelopment

Clichés

• Characters and Cliches
• Top 10 Character Cliches
• 7 Lazy Character Cliches 
• 10 Most Cliched Characters in Sci-Fi
• Four Worst Character Cliches
• Female Character Cliches
• Character Cliches to Avoid
• The Cliche Character Test
• How Cliches Can Help You Make Great Characters

Templates

• How to Create a Character Profile
• Writing Character Bios
• Character Sheets and Character Creation
• Gender/Sexuality Generator
• Extremely Detailed Character Template
• Writer’s Resource: Character Template
• Character Description

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