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How do you go about writing a character, /lit/?

>> No.5152331

Start by describing their pointer finger.
Follow it through its day. What does it do? Does it go in anything? A coffee mug? A trigger?
What does it point at? Does it point in anger or to inform?
Is it often in pockets or out, moving wildly and articulately to help explain something?

>> No.5152336

>>5152323
don't write a character, use your mind uterus to give BIRTH to a character.

>> No.5152347

You can create a highly idealized version of yourself and fill that character with characteristics you consider to be your best.
You can create a highly negative version of yourself and fill that character with characteristics you consider to be your worst.

>> No.5152356

man, /lit/ should just write a book on how to write a book, these threads are so constant

>> No.5152572

Write a character about someone you would want to read about

>> No.5154626

>>5152331
>noko

>> No.5154629

You write a situation with someone in it, their reactions to the situation delineates their character.

>> No.5154676

>>5152336
Are you my former high school teacher mister Hicks?

>> No.5154689
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5154689

>>5152323
>"WRITING CHARACTERS".

ARE YOU A PREMODERNIST?

>> No.5154953

I start with archetypes and deconstruct them until they are recognizably human beings.

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5154979

>tfw you transcend fiction

>> No.5155016

>>5154689
Gif ?