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The Characters within your Story

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Character Traits

At the end of the day, the characters are the most critical part of your story. They’re the ones with which your readers empathise; they’re the ones your readers will finish the book to follow. Some people have told me to write backstories and investigate every detail of their lifestyle so I can use them in a way that is consistent.

Here’s my simple principle: whatever makes it into the window frame of your story has to either impact your characters somehow or at least impact a role in a way that will grab your reader’s attention.

Build up your new world. Play and have fun. Go crazy with them. Then when it comes to your story, just make sure that the parts are seen through the window frame matter to the characters. It’s not who the characters are at the beginning, it’s what they do within the timeframe of your story. Their actions are what people see of them. A personality whom is merely upset and looks downwards is very different from a character that stands tall and slaps the face of the other actor that said something nasty.

Different Story Hero Types

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Hero Types

Out of the novels, tv series and movies that contain heroes. It has been pointed out to me that there are only three different types, and they are:

The Classic Hero
In the most sense, these protagonists are people that comprise all the best natures of our society. Some may have superpowers like Spiderman, Wonder woman, Superman and Batman. Everyone trusts them to be victorious over the evil antagonist. The writer must then put considerable obstacles in front of the protagonist to make the work more difficult for them to succeed.

The Every Man Hero
This hero is every one of us, but just in the wrong place at the wrong time. We find that there are some things that we all regularly do and connect with them on that particular level. The work to become our spokesperson within the land of courageous action. Some of these heroes include: John McClane from Die Hard, Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men or Harrison Ford in Six Days Seven Nights.

The Anti-Hero
This character comprises all the rotten things in our society. They are the nasty villain but are also on the right guy’s side. They are likely to be the favourite character because the story arc is the most hottest. An Anti-Hero I appreciate is Riddick from Pitch Black. Also, I think humour plays a part as I also like Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers.