Hello lovely person who helps us desperate writers in their time of need. I have a question. If you have to main characters (say twins for example) how do you make sure you don’t have a favorite in between the two. (Say you like the sister more than the brother and give her more of a personality and story arch and just leave the brother sitting in the back of your brain closet with no where to go. He doesn’t get a story because you favor the sister.) How do I prevent this from happening??
Aww thank you <3. You know, these kind of asks are the ones that make me happy because it isn’t just a blunt demanding question. Thank you for making my day.
In order to help fix the problem, you have to be able to understand it.
Ask yourself these questions:
1. Why do I favor the one character over the other character?
2. If it’s their personality/lack of story arc, then why am I not giving those things to them? Is there a specific reason behind that (Laziness/difficult character to portray/etc.?)
3. Is the unfavored character even necessary to the story? If they were a major part of the plot, then it wouldn’t be as hard to ignore them. If you took them out of the story, what would change? Would it even be that different?
So, what is it about the brother character that makes you push him to the background? How can you fix that problem? Is it by sitting down and making a character chart and really developing his personality to be one that you like just as much as the other’s personality? Is it by removing him altogether from the narrative?
Happy writing, and feel free to come back with follow-up questions!