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Chapter 55 How to write a novel to "live" the characters

The characters in novel creation are characters who are rich and polished through figurative thinking and logical thinking after the author has figured out people's psychological and behavioral habits in reality.

Therefore, the most important and basic point of creating vivid characters is that the author must have a precise grasp of human nature and have a detailed observation of people.

If you can't do this, even if you have high writing skills, the things you write will still feel fake. The characters you create are soulless, walking corpses, like rootless trees, and dead water without a source.

By doing this, you will have sufficient preparations for the fertile soil for writing characters to live. The next thing you need to do is to hone your writing skills and fertilize the characters.

I will not repeat the description methods such as portrait behavioral language and psychological details, etc. Here, if you are interested, buy a writing textbook yourself, and there are all on it.

Here I will mention a few common tips to share with you.

Skill 1: Set the tone and personality keywords

The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change. Once a person's mind and habits are fixed, it is difficult to change. Therefore, when creating characters, you must first set a tone and limit a few keywords. And if you run through the novel, you must not be as timid as a mouse, bold as a person, domineering as a person, and cowardly and afraid of things. Such large-scale personality fluctuations will only cause the characters to be written.

How to set the tone? For example, character A, first set the tone, the bad guy, and then determine the keywords based on the tone, what is bad, and what is bad? Keywords can be defined as unfilial, unkind, unrighteous, etc., and then set the background of the character based on the keywords. Why is it unfilial? The character's personality is reasonable, and the identity and background of character A can be determined as being born in a butcher's family, the mother died early, the father and stepmother treat him badly, and abused him all day long. He hated his parents very much since he was a child, so unfilial, the background and personality of the character will make the character plump. This is the benefit of setting the tone and keywords.

Skill 2: Create the character's iconic action language.

When portraying a character, you can often add a little bit of habit. Whether it is action or language, it can greatly improve his recognition. For example, when character A speaks, he calls "I" as "I", and when character B speaks, he calls "I" as "I". The details of a slang and a formal word will unknowingly increase the distinction between the two. There are also many mantras and behavioral details that can play a good role in portraying the characters.

Skill 3: Increase personality fluctuations.

This is actually contrary to the skills. The skills and the personality remains unchanged. This is a suggestion for writers with weak foundations. Once they can use skills and skillfully, they must transition to skills and three.

Because human nature is very complex. Although nature is difficult to change, it does not mean that nature cannot be changed. Once the author uses a clever plot to promote it, a villain can be gradually whitewashed or a decent character can be gradually smeared. However, we should pay attention to the changes in the emotional and psychological lines of the characters. This change must be reasonable. Once this is done, the character will brighten up. At the same time, the more frames the character's emotional and psychological lines, the more vivid the characters will appear.
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