4 Ways to Make Your Characters More Interesting

Just a few methods for creating more three-dimensional characters

A lot of hard work and planning goes into writing fiction. If you don’t read countless articles and study a thousand techniques before you pick up a pencil, you run the risk of telling a bad story.

You probably don’t have time to read all those articles, but you don’t have to. You just need to master an important aspect of writing. Practice it enough and it’ll bring up the other aspects of your writing as well. Practice makes perfect, after all.

The aspect that any creative writer should try to get right is Characterization. Unfortunately, it’s one of the trickiest parts to get right.

It may seem easy to create characters. All you’ve got to do is create the funny one, the smart one, the cool one. In reality, that is the worst way to write characters. You can’t confine a complex, three-dimensional person to a box any more than you could with an actual person.

Be careful not to end up with stereotypical, run-of-the-mill characters. You also shouldn’t try too hard, or you could run into any number of issues, including your characters coming off as annoying, needy, naive, and so on. The list could reach the stars and back.

What you want to do is find a place in the middle. You just need your characters to pop out and captivate the audience. Make them memorable, relatable, and inspiring.

I’ve listed four ways to accomplish that below.

We’re all shaped by the events that made up our childhood. Our past shapes who we become. The same thing applies to our characters.

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