Characters

When you create characters for a story, one thing that is fairly important is variety. You can't have everyone be dry, or have them all bouncing off the walls, or have them all so straight you'd suspect they all have sticks up their butts (pardon me for the language). You have to give them different personalities, different likes and dislikes, all the things that makes a person unique!

Here are a few questions to ask yourself when you're working with making characters that are all different from each other while also identifying their personalities--if these sound familiar, I got them from a book by a guy named Art Roche:

Just giving credit where credit is due. (I've just recently read this book myself and took a few notes.)

• How would each character respond to giving a speech in front of a crowd of 1,000 people?
• What does each character want most in life?
• What is each character's biggest personality flaws?
• If each of these characters had to make a choice between money and happiness, which would they choose and why?
• How would each character react to someone cutting in line in front of them?

These may not sound very big, but from just these little questions you can learn alot about the very character YOU created, while proving to yourself that they're all special, and not drones all given the same brain.

Good luck!