i’m personally always on the lookout for articles to help me when writing, and here’s one all about creating characters which I find especially useful. Types of Characters In Fiction
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Characters are important to books. What is a character? I feel it’s a good starting point to define that.
“A character is any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work. Main characters have the greatest effect on the plot or are the most affected by the events of the story. Types of characters include protagonists, antagonists, dynamic, static, round, flat and stock.” (Character- Wikipedia). Characterisation, then, is the creation of a character (also called character “building.”