The takeaway I learned about creating believable characters are giving them traits that are relatable and this includes average motivations, and reacting to situations in a manner that aren’t too extreme. This is why writing psychopathic characters or selfless heroes that go to the extremes are a challenge to work with. It’s just hard to imagine life from their perspective and even more so when you try to frame then in their supposed best light.
It is definitely a challenge to be able to build the characters, because you have to evaluate several things, and among them is the one that is generally the most important: "the premise of the character"
As you know, every character must have an objective, a motivation, his counterpart or enemy, and a situation that generally the easiest thing is to make it dramatic at first, and that leads them to confront each other later on several occasions and of course in the final outcome. It is a roller coaster of emotions and depends on the approach you give to the narrative to solve each of the 3 basic parts in which any story is built.
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Whenever you like, we can exchange opinions, I am a writer who is fond of Stephen King's techniques and his use of timelines to tell stories, is really fascinating and if you have not read about this technique, I invite you to investigate a little, it is a method that it really is great and helps a lot when it comes to writing.
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