{"id":10973,"date":"2018-05-14T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/?p=10973"},"modified":"2019-04-17T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T14:16:11","slug":"how-to-develop-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/how-to-develop-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon on Writing: How to Develop Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-10973\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-10973-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-10973-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-10973-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character. Funny word, isn\u2019t it? Writers often tell stories from the perspective of a character as if they were a real person \u2013 with wants and needs and hopes and fears. In other words: a three-dimensional human being that drives the plot forward. So how might we go about developing Characters? Why do we need them? And what does this have to do with story? Try our step-by-step guide to creating characters to bring your ideas to life\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-10973-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-10973-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-10973-1-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2>Step 1: Create a Three-Dimensional Character<\/h2>\n<p>We know what one-dimensional characters look like. People that arrive with information, provide a convenient explanation for events, or exist merely to make jokes or threats. These characters might also be objectified by someone else, so do not move the story forward. And this is where the three dimensions come in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A character has an internal want or desire. This is the thing that drives them<\/li>\n<li>Your character has an external reaction.This makes them behave a certain way<\/li>\n<li>This creates interpersonal conflict with other people. This creates obstacles to resolve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-10973-2\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-10973-2-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-10973-2-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2>Step 2: Conflict is King<\/h2>\n<p>Remember the cheat\u2019s guide to conflict: Put your character somewhere they don\u2019t want to be; on a day they don\u2019t want to be there; with someone they don\u2019t want to be with. Give them a task they need to fulfil. Ensure that something, stands in their way. What your character chooses to do in that situation will drive the plot forward\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-10973-2-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-image panel-last-child\" data-index=\"3\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-image so-widget-sow-image-default-dbf295114b96-10973\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\n<div class=\"sow-image-container\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706.jpg\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706-296x197.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706-690x459.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706-1050x699.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706-871x580.jpg 871w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706-930x619.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08706-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" title=\"Jon Barton on developing characters &#8211; City Academy writing courses\" alt=\"Jon Barton on developing characters - City Academy writing courses\" \t\tclass=\"so-widget-image\"\/>\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-10973-3\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-10973-3-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-10973-3-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"4\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2>Step 3: Stakes and Consequence<\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps you have a great idea for a story but you don\u2019t have a character \u2013 say, a cat-and-mouse thriller about a suitcase full of money. Perhaps the reverse is true: you have a character but no story \u2013 say, a dedicated English butler repressed by class and gender. Either way, try this handy formula:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Characters + Decisions + Time pressure + Circumstances = Plot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If your characters face pressure to act, and it is clear what will happen if they don\u2019t, you are creating dramatic tension. Think of any crime fiction: what happens if the police don\u2019t catch the killer in time? Clearly dramatic tension comes in very handy if you\u2019re writing a Thriller!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-10973-4\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-10973-4-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-10973-4-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"5\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2>Step 4: Consider the Given Circumstances<\/h2>\n<p>I like to play a game with writers on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/creative-writing-beginners\">Creative Writing for Beginners course<\/a>. The game is this: answer a series of set questions about the character\u2019s background. Be as general as you like \u2013 sex, age, circumstances, for example, the character is female; in her thirties; she is Head Chef at a restaurant. She was working class but now she\u2019s middle class. She is an only child. Her parents are separated. She has a guilty secret and a greatest fear\u2026<\/p>\n<p>These circumstances indicate the character may behave in a very specific way to a dramatic situation: say, witnessing a hit and run on her way home from work one evening? What is the first thing she will do? What\u2019s the next thing? And the next? Knowing what a character\u2019s circumstances are means your audience will have certain expectations of how they act. If you know what these expectations are, it means you can have fun doing the opposite, subverting expectations. Given circumstances also establish characters in a specific world, for example, rural Texas in the early Eighties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-10973-5\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-10973-5-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-10973-5-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child\" data-index=\"6\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2>Step 5: Give your character a moment of crisis<\/h2>\n<p>This is crucial to why we need characters at all. Someone takes a journey to discover something they needed. If this tradition of storytelling is fundamental to ways we view the world, characters must be surrogates for our experience. As Ian McEwan brilliantly observed: \u201cimagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity\u201d. A moment of crisis forces your character to confront a problem they always had, or something they always needed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-10973-5-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-button\" data-index=\"7\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-button so-widget-sow-button-flat-f0f5f6ccf8de-10973\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"ow-button-base ow-button-align-center\">\n\t<a\n\thref=\"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/jon-on-writing-seize-the-inner-perfectionist\/\"\n\t\tclass=\"ow-icon-placement-left ow-button-hover\" \t>\n\t\t<span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tSTART WRITING WITH JON'S TOP TIPS \t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-10973-5-0-2\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"8\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10073 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/jon-barton-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/jon-barton-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/jon-barton-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/jon-barton-330x430.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/jon-barton.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/tutor\/jon-barton\">Jon Barton is Head of Writing at City Academy<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-10973-6\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-10973-6-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-10973-6-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-button panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"9\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-button so-widget-sow-button-flat-eaf7c94c6ecb-10973\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"ow-button-base ow-button-align-center\">\n\t<a\n\thref=\"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/writing-courses\"\n\t\tclass=\"ow-icon-placement-left\" \t>\n\t\t<span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWRITING COURSES &raquo;\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Character. 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