Process or Cause-and-Effect Paragraph
Name: Rosemarie Nesbitt
Username: rnesbitt
Date: 3/26/07
Assignment 4.5.1: Writing Practice – Process or Cause-and-Effect Paragraph
I chose a process paragraph.
It’s not that hard to create a fictional character, despite what everyone says. You just have to follow a few rudimentary steps and that will give you the ‘bare bones’ of your creation, after that all it takes it a bit of fleshing out; adding detail and quirks.
First, you have to start out with good, believable characters. To do this, write down a character sheet, put your creations name at the top and then start working on them. Start with their appearance; hair color, style, length, eyes color and shape, skin tone and texture, height, weight, body type… Try to picture the person in your mind and write down everything you see. And don’t worry, it doesn’t need to be organized and you can always go back if some other feature occurs to you.
After that work on your characters personality but be careful! This is one of the trickiest parts of building a believable character; a lot of authors fall prey to perfect characters what is know as Mary-Sue or Gary-Stews. Make sure that your character has flaw. And real ones, not ‘too nice’ or anything like that. Remember that even a character can be disliked by other characters and readers. Remember you can please all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you cant please all of the people all of the time.
After you have your characters physical appearance and personality it’s time to figure out where your character came from.
Where did your character come from? What is their family and home life like? Why are the situation that they’re in now? Answer these questions, and anymore that you can think of, until you know your characters basic history. Remember; it doesn’t have to be organized and it doesn’t have to be perfectly detailed… this is just the bare bones that will give you a basic feel for who your character will be.
Creating fictional characters isn’t that hard, just follow those three basic steps and viola, you have the rough draft of a character sheet.
Username: rnesbitt
Date: 3/26/07
Assignment 4.5.1: Writing Practice – Process or Cause-and-Effect Paragraph
I chose a process paragraph.
It’s not that hard to create a fictional character, despite what everyone says. You just have to follow a few rudimentary steps and that will give you the ‘bare bones’ of your creation, after that all it takes it a bit of fleshing out; adding detail and quirks.
First, you have to start out with good, believable characters. To do this, write down a character sheet, put your creations name at the top and then start working on them. Start with their appearance; hair color, style, length, eyes color and shape, skin tone and texture, height, weight, body type… Try to picture the person in your mind and write down everything you see. And don’t worry, it doesn’t need to be organized and you can always go back if some other feature occurs to you.
After that work on your characters personality but be careful! This is one of the trickiest parts of building a believable character; a lot of authors fall prey to perfect characters what is know as Mary-Sue or Gary-Stews. Make sure that your character has flaw. And real ones, not ‘too nice’ or anything like that. Remember that even a character can be disliked by other characters and readers. Remember you can please all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you cant please all of the people all of the time.
After you have your characters physical appearance and personality it’s time to figure out where your character came from.
Where did your character come from? What is their family and home life like? Why are the situation that they’re in now? Answer these questions, and anymore that you can think of, until you know your characters basic history. Remember; it doesn’t have to be organized and it doesn’t have to be perfectly detailed… this is just the bare bones that will give you a basic feel for who your character will be.
Creating fictional characters isn’t that hard, just follow those three basic steps and viola, you have the rough draft of a character sheet.
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