Muffin needs some serious HG help C:

Muffin needs some serious HG help C: Oct 1, 2015 17:15:45 GMT -5

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Post by Avalon on Oct 1, 2015 17:15:45 GMT -5

Heya Muffin!

I will be your tutor for this session!

CHARACTER
DEVELOPMENT

"the portrayal of people in a work of fiction
in such a way that the reader or audience
seems to learn more about them as they develop."

When developing characters, especially those participating in the games, things may not always go to plan. This is something everyone will face sometime through their journey, and I'm here to tell you that it is okay! Simply because, in real life, not everything will go to plan, but we learn to live through it and make the best. Having a set development, one that allows flexibility, is the best key to having an interesting & successful character development.

Here are a few tips to character development, another way that may help is to make charts for your characters, and how they react through the events they are having to face;

General Character Development Roleplay Tips:

- Develop a purpose for your character. This way it'll be a lot easier to get in touch of who they are when you write them, as well as get the feel and flow when doing so. Usually people who don't do this are stuck with characters they don't necessarily know how to roleplay with/don't know what to make use of them for.

- Create their personality through their strengths, weaknesses, beliefs, habits, intro/extroverted, key traits, etc. Don't feel like you have to stick to these, in time your characters personality can/will change just as a normal human being.

- It is a must to remember that no character is perfect, everyone has a flaw. And anyway, being perfect is boring, might as well follow the rules and spice things up in an interesting way! Just try to avoid cliche's though, not everyone in life has had a very traumatic experience in their childhood.

- Be realistic and do your research.

- Develop details about them gradually. By developing bit by bit and post by post you'll get a much more realistic change in character. Usually in real life someone is not going to become your best friend/enemy/boyfriend/girlfriend with one conversation, it takes time, so don't force your character to do that. Just be patient and go little by little and all things will turn out well!

- Writing 1st & 3rd person posts will help develop your characters thought process and how they see the world in their minds/eyes. Gradually, you could evolve how they see things from one point in time to the next.

- Make sure you can support your character strong enough throughout your writing with them.

Also, usually if you're planning to do something that will have a dramatic end result on how your character looks, acts, thinks, sees the world, it helps to write or outline another bio for that character after the event has taken place. Then compare the original and the one that was just made and see where things are different and what caused it and how they see things differently after.

~EXERCISE~

For this exercise, I would like you to pick any character that you own currently, and have them explain what they are experiencing in this image. Using a minimum of two paragraphs, I'd like you to explain how they go about their day, as well as significant events that may, or could have happened, in the previous days, weeks, months, etc. It can be anything you want, but I ask that you have them give insight on how it changed their views, or life in general, ever since it happened. There are no restrictions to what you can write about, but just to have fun!

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If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or anything throughout this exercise or session, then feel absolutely free to Slack, Skype, or PM me! Good luck and I can't wait to see what you have in store!