TDS Oneshots - Love in the Air

✏️ ✨ Writing Tips ✨ ✏️

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Disclaimer: I AM NOT AN EXPERT ON WRITING, IVE ONLY BEEN DOING THIS FOR 3 MONTHS

Disclaimer 2: You don't have to abide by everything in here, this is just advice and tips

Here's some advice, I hope this helps y'all out ;)

1. Character Development

   Your characters need to be flawed. I write characters with problems such as;

   - Molten has trouble managing his anger, which makes people avoid him

   - Frost Spirit has crippling anxiety which makes her too scared to pursue relationships

   - Umbra gets jealous and territorial which prevents her friends from having friendships with anyone besides her

   - Penumbras is afraid of being abandoned by his friends 

Get what I'm saying?
Obviously your characters must develop throughout the story, improving themselves with progression of the story.

   - Molten learns to control his temper and no longer makes people avoid him.

   - Frost Spirit learns to talk to people about her anxieties and manages to be more confident.

   - Umbra learns to recognize how destructive her jealousy is.

   - Penumbras overcomes his fear by facing it head on.

Characters can also change their mindset.

   - Gunslinger believes that money is everything thing in life
   - Later in the story, he realizes that there is more to life than just money
   - Learns to appreciate the small things in life such as relationships

Characters change NEED TO BE BELIEVABLE. A shy person shouldn't be extremely social after changing.

Example:
(Jaxe is mean person)

   Jaxe wants to destroy Swamp Monsters house because he wants to build a swimming pool.
   He realizes that Swamp Monster is a good guy and that what he is doing is wrong
   "I decided your house is lame, I'm building my swimming pool somewhere else."

^^^ that's more believable for a mean person to do rather than "I'm sorry I was so mean!!!2"

2. Creating Characters

Creating characters is hard, so I made a format for you guys to help you out. Feel free to copy and paste this to help you organize them.
(Delete the definitions)

Weakness:

Need:

Desire:

Enemy:

                    Bonus traits (optional)

Secrets:

Passion:

Fear:

Thought Process:

                  If they are a Villain

Speciality:

Redeeming quality:

3. Character Abilites

Don't make your characters crazy op. They need to have a weakness or they won't be believable or liked.
If they are very physically powerful, make them very mentally, emotionally or spiritually weak.