1. How to Create Lively Characters

2. Characters Are your characters stick figures on paper?
Good Characters are not all good or all evil with nothing in between.
A good character needs some negative characteristics and an evil character needs some positive characteristics.
Your reader needs to love one characteristic about your evil character such as they love to work at animal shelter.
Your good character needs to have at least one negative characteristic.
No human is perfect, so how can a fictional character be perfect?

3. Some Ways to Create Lively Characters
Write a List of all the Characteristics you’d like to see in your characters
Describe one character at a time so you don’t get them mixed up.
Ask your character questions like you just meet them.
Find a picture in a magazine that your character looks like.
Create a Character Sheet

4. Practice The Character Sheet Method
Character Name:______________________________________
Answer the following questions about your character.
Family and friends (names of parents, siblings, spouses, and close friends)
Occupation
Social status (rich, poor, middle class)
Financial background
What annoys him/her
Date and place of birth/Age
Appearance
Greatest achievement/failure
Hopes and fears
Create a question of your own!!