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31 Days Of Character Development: May Writing Challenge

– You’ve all been really enjoying these monthly writing challenges, so I decided to do a small series of prompt lists for developing your longer stories. This month is character development, and the next month will be plot development and worldbuilding. I look forward to seeing all of your guys’ responses here using the hashtag #wordsnstuffcharacterdevelopment and over on Instagram, where you can tag me @ writingandsuch.

☼ Prompt List ☼

Days 1-10: Motivation & Behaviour

What does your character think they want?

What does your character actually want?

What does your character need?

What are your character’s recurring feelings?

If you had to write 10 rules or beliefs your characters follow, what would they be?

Write a scene in which your character’s past affects their current actions.

What are your characters fears and where do they stem from?

What is your character’s biggest secret? Why do they keep it?

Where does your character stand on the alignment scale? 

What does your character have to lose?

Days 11-20: Physical/Personality Traits and Relationships

What are your character’s strengths?

What are your character’s weaknesses?

Find a face claim for your character and identify the differences.

What is your character’s ethnic background?

Write a short blurb of your character interaction with each other character.

List and explain your character’s positive traits.

List and explain your character’s negative traits.

Describe your character’s sense of style.

What are your character’s flaws?

Describe your character from the point of view of someone who hates them.

Days 21-30: Role, Impact, and Evolution

What role does your character play in the progression of the plot?

How could a reader relate to your character?

How does your character’s past affect people’s view of them?

To what extent does your character help the conflict resolve?

To what extent does your character worsen the conflict?

What are the major struggles your character is facing?

Describe your character in beginning vs. the end of the story?

What events play the largest part in changing your character?

How do you want your reader to remember the character?

What is the character’s overall impact on other characters and the story overall?

Bonus Challenge (Day 31)

Describe your character’s backstory, “once upon a time” style

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Quick and easy way to establish rules in your fantasy/scifi universe!

This can apply both to magic and fictional science, because it’s essentially just a magic system in disguise!

There is a whole spectrum from hard systems (with a very particular set of rules that can’t be broken) to soft systems (characters don’t know everything about the rules and the workings or the rules are flexible). Where on this spectrum your system falls depends on you and your story.

A good way to start out is by asking three questions:

What is possible? What is impossible? What is the price?

Two stupid examples:

Fantasy: With this magic shoes you can fly ten feet above the ground. But you can only fly up, not forward. And your feet will hurt like hell for the next three days after you’ve used them.

Scifi: With this laser gun you can shoot people to stun them. But you can’t kill them with it. And to power it you need to buy a bunch of those little button batteries you never seem to get anywhere.

Try starting with those questions and work from there.

If you want to learn more about building a magic system and scifi/fantasy writing in general, check out these free lectures on youtube by author Brandon Sanderson, I learned a lot!

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