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How do you make a unique character?
8 Tips for Character Development
- Establish a character’s motivations and goals.
- Choose a voice.
- Do a slow reveal.
- Create conflict.
- Give important characters a backstory.
- Describe a character’s personality in familiar terms.
- Paint a physical picture of your characters.
- Develop secondary characters.
How do you make a complex character?
How to Create Contradictions in Your Characters
- Look to their flaws. One of the easiest places to start looking for contradictions is to look to your character’s flaws.
- Write down their views and beliefs.
- Write down their actions and behavior.
- Use action to have them do something against what they believe.
What makes a character in a book interesting?
They Want Something—and Do Something. A content character is not going to shake things up and bring about a compelling situation. But characters who yearn, desire, lust, ache, crave—those are characters who make fascinating choices. Choices are what makes a character interesting.
Is Super Speed One word?
superspeed used as a noun: Remarkable speed, above and beyond that of normal human speed.
Should you give your characters superpowers?
Costume-clad or not, many speculative fiction characters have a superpower of some kind. Maybe they can levitate, shoot lightning out of their hands, or read long blog posts in a single glance. Whenever you give your character an ability that people in real life don’t have, it creates a potential plot hole.
What superhero has super-speed?
The Flash is the most iconic hero with super-speed Super-Speed (or Super Speed, Enhanced Speed, Celerity, Sonic Speed) is a super-power that allows a person to move faster than humanly possible. While most people can move at 12-15 miles per hour while sprinting, a possessor of super-speed can move much faster with (usually) a minimum of effort.
What does it take to become a super-powered person?
This power also normally requires a great deal of strength, traction, and flexibility, though there are always exceptions, depending on the source or the nature of the power. A person with no such powers, even with the highest level of training and preparation, could not reach these speeds under their own power.
How do you write an imperfect character?
To be imperfect is to be human. By giving your character a moral shortcoming, negative character trait, quirk, fear, bias, and/or limitation, you develop a realistic character with whom readers can relate. Never mind the conflict that a good flaw can create.