Just ask your character questions and let her talk. Don’t worry about how your character is sitting or what the room looks like. “So what I hear you saying is …” This will give your character the opportunity to think through what she said and comment on her own thoughts and feelings.įocus on writing the dialogue only. One way to do this is to reflect back to your character what she said. What do you want to talk about?” As your character talks, make sure you get to the heart of her concerns with questions like “How does that make you feel?” and “What were you thinking when that happened?”Īdditionally, when your character says something you find unusual or exaggerated, ask your character to elaborate on it. Start the session with the question, “Thanks for coming in today. Imagine she walks into your office and sits down on a couch across from you. To get to know your character, pretend to be her therapist. In therapy, people talk freely about their inner thoughts and feelings. Here are three tricks I use to develop characters so they sound less like me and more like themselves: 1.
If we want our characters to stand out, we are going to have to write some who are different than us, to find a unique character voice for each one that’s different from our own.
Unfortunately, if all my characters are like me, my books are going to be pretty predictable. I find it easy to write characters who are like me, who see the world like I see it. 3 Writing Prompts to Discover Your Character’s Voice If our audience is going to empathize with her, we have to first. We need to understand her thoughts and feelings. To write a character that leaps off the page, we need to know her deeply. We can relate to them because they seem human. They talk, act, and respond to stress in ways we recognize, with their own personal character voice.
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