It’s the one part of my writing I truly does not understand, some of my characters are just like that. I have never liked comedies or really understood humor, so I never try to be funny. I think something clicked when I wrote massive amounts of DA2 fanfic, because that was a game which consisted of nothing but banter, so I tried to mimic it the best I could. I was terrible writing characters and dialogue. Would you have any tips on writing humor/banter? You’re pretty dang good at it but I could never figure out how to be funny lmao all the jokes I write are Extremely Cringe.I didn’t need to bring in all those things at once, as long as I got writing the first archetype, people would be interested and intrigued when they learned about the new facets. And finally, we discover “the clever, sneaky asshole”. Then, we get to know what I fondly call “the himbo”. The first archetype is “the sexy leading man/hero”. They will be uncovered one at a time, adding depth. I start with one people will know immediately, then add another, and a third. I usually build characters by combining archetypes. I’ve written pages of dialogue just to get a feel for how people talk. Don’t bother thinking if it’s usable or not. Maybe they start talking about things about them that you didn’t even know. ![]() Just write them talking, and after a while you might get a feel for how they feel different from one another. Don’t bother writing anything but dialogue, never mind the actual scene. Be stuck in an awkward situation together. Take two characters you have trouble with and let them talk. Nobody read that for the characters.Ī trick I have to try to get my characters to feel alive is to write arguments. My characters were terribly flat when I started out, but I wrote short story horror so it didn’t matter. You won’t get depth in all of them, and the characters are what you spot being flat first, because that’s usually what attracts us to a story in the first place. And when you are starting out, there’s simply too many things to focus on. You have your language, your plot, your world, your story rhythm. And your characters will be flat at the start because a story consists of so many parts. If Batman or James Bond can get away with their shit, your protagonist certainly can too. The way this is used these days, it might as well mean “protagonist”.
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