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cool lightning mcqueen shoes but make them even COOLER (light-up heelys)

took these screenshots for people like me who would rather just know how to opt out than read several paragraphs on corporate greed

Scout practice because I need human art practice 😂

a whole galaxy

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How to make Good Characters for Dummies

So, you don't know how to make good characters? Well this might not be the most accurate guide but it's how I do it and the thing most people like best about my writing style is my characters.

Step 1 - Personality

You need to know what kind of person your characters is, which will determine how they act and speak for the rest of the story. You should find at least 5 good traits and 4 bad traits for every character, including villains. Always have the amount of weaknesses be at most 2 less than the amount of strengths.

Step 2 - Goal

What does your character want? Why do they want it? What will they do to get it? All of these should tie into your character's personality. Desperate character? They will do literally anything to achieve their goal. Kind character, they will ask for help to achieve their goal. Ect.

Step 3 - Who

Who is your character fundamentally? Gender, age, job, ect.

Step 4 - Story role

What do they do. Why?

Step 5 - Design

What do they look like? Use pinterest for this or just the internet in general for inspiration. Or just draw it out if you can.

Step 6 - Actions

Make sure their actions always align with their personality and goal. Draw upon real life people to figure stuff out

Step 7 - Relationships

Draw upon real life for this too. Determine the relationship between the two to one or a few words. Then insert the personalities and goals

if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?