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NaNo Character Week: Character Personality, Arcs and Relationships Resources

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Welcome to day fourteen of WC’s NaNoPlanMo! Today’s focus is on personality development, character arcs and character relationships!

Personality Development Through Character Traits

Creating Unique Characters from @lets-get-fictional

The 10 Elements of a Main Character from @thatkatiecooney

Design A Personality: Building Rock Solid Character Traits

Virtue and Vice Development Method from @writeworld

Building a Balanced Character

Character Trait Lists

36 Core Values for Building Character

Neutral Character Traits from @macklinassists

123 Ideas for Character Flaws

350 Character Traits

List of Character Traits

Another List of Character Traits

Character Arcs

K.M. Weiland: Writing Character Arcs

K.M. Weliand: Creating Stunning Character Arcs (Series)

Creating Character Arcs

How to Plot a Character Arc via @silvokrent

Why Character Arcs Make Readers Care

The Three Types of Character Arcs

Planning Character Arcs in a Nutshell

How to Figure Out Your Character’s Arc

Character Arcs and Motivations

Character Motivations: 7 Tips for Writing Better Portraits

How to Create Character Motivations

Motivate Your Characters Like a Pro

Six Emotional Motives for Your Characters

Inner Drives: What’s My Character’s Motivation?

Rethinking Motivation for Character Arcs

Character Relationships

Writing Healthy Couples in Fiction from @oliviapaigewrites

8 Secrets to Writing Strong Character Relationships

Character Relationships: 6 Tips for Crafting Real Connections

Why Character Relationships Make or Break Your Story

K.M. Weiland: What’s the Most Important Relationship in Your Story?

Writing Romance? Avoid These 5 Mistakes

Stop by tomorrow for the kickoff to Setting Week!

[headspace-hotel]

@awhellstothejoe deserves credit for perfectly articulating the fantasy writer version of “Thanks! I hate it!”

[katswenski]

[thebisexualbooknerd]

I’ve seen this a million times and every time I forget what’s coming

[asanaambitions]

Friendly reminder to check your breasts while you’re just sitting there scrolling the internet, then reblog so your followers do the same. Two people I know were just diagnosed within the same week.

[eternalcowboy-blog]

these are the things that need spread. not fucking ribbons and the words “breast cancer awareness.” we know it exists. just knowing it exists isn’t going to help much.

[metradell-vyorei-deactivated202]

for everyone who has breasts or is rather busty in the chest area (because men can get it too and not everyone who has breasts is a woman)

[introvertbard]

Quick reminder for my followers with boobs! I checked mine and I’m all clear.

[pricklyfish777-deactivated20230]

Also amab people as well! While it is rare, people who are amab can develop breast cancer too, because even though it’s thin [in some cases] you still have breast tissue, just not mammary glands, which is what produces milk :-O

[love-eef-nestor]

ethan is trying to be nice here, but clearly that hasn’t worked in the past, so i’m gonna be an asshole.

DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS. DO NOT GO SEARCHING FOR CONTENT CREATORS ADDRESSES. DO NOT SEND THINGS TO THEM IF THEY DON’T HAVE A SPECIFIC PLACE TO SEND THINGS. DO NOT GO TO THEIR HOUSES. DO NOT SPREAD THEIR ADDRESSES IF YOU DO FIND THEIR ADDRESS. LEARN ABOUT FUCKING BOUNDRIES.

if you have any problems with the above statement, then fucking say so. if you try to find a content creators private home, ethan or mark or anybody else, get the fuck away from me, from them, and from the community. we all care for them a lot, and as much as i would love to see ethan or send him something, i recognize FUCKING BOUNDRIES. 

if anyone argues with this in any way, you are getting blocked. i feel more strongly about this than being anti rpf. doing shit like this can seriously get someone we care about hurt. as much as we all hate to think, there are some fucked up people out there who would do unspeakable things to the creators they “care” about. 

DON’T FUCKING DO THIS.

[timedunce]

@crankgameplays little sketch while I watch tv

[wikilifeadvice]

make your own foot scrub

[pochowek]

feet are pretty hard to make

dont call me a scrub ever again

[wikilifeadvice]

please stop making me read this

[bonefarm]

[garrettwrites]

Follow me on Twitter for more vampire nonsense

[5543543646445rty65y65-deactivat]

it never ends

[elfersprigato]

My whole life in a gif.

[hilli98215]

You know your an adult when you feel the satisfaction of cleaning the bathroom.

[anxietyproblem]

[cishetlessfashion]

[catvampire]

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

terrifying and incomprehensible to the human mind?

[hzs-modblog]

[mrmeriwether]

I love the generational gap between emoji usage. Anyone over 50 sees 🙃 and thinks "silly time! whee 🙃", whereas the rest of us immediately hear, verbatim, "they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you're fine, when you're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would ne--"

[mangonetics]

Flying the flag upside down is a distress signal

[mylittleredgirl]

my dad–also a writer–came to visit, and i mentioned that the best thing to come out of the layoff is that i’m writing again. he asked what i was writing about, and i said what i always do: “oh, just fanfic,” which is code for “let’s not look at this too deeply because i’m basically just making action figures kiss in text form” and “this awkward follow-up question is exactly why i don’t call myself a writer in public.”

he said, “you have to stop doing that.”

“i know, i know,” because it’s even more embarrassing to be embarrassed about writing fanfic, considering how many posts i’ve reblogged in its defense.

but i misunderstood his original question: “fanfic is just the genre. i asked what you’re writing about.” 

i did the conversational equivalent of a spinning wheel cursor for at least a minute. i started peeling back the setting and the characters, the fic challenge and the specific episode the story jumps off from, and it was one of those slow-dawning light bulb moments. “i’m writing about loneliness, and who we are in the absence of purpose.”

as, i imagine, are a lot of people right now, who probably also don’t realize they’re writing an existential diary in the guise of getting television characters to fuck. 

“that’s what you’re writing. the rest is just how you get there, and how you get it out into the world. was richard iii really about richard the third? would shakespeare have gotten as many people to see it if it wasn’t a story they knew?”

so, my friends: what are you writing about?

[podcastwizard]

i understand from an artistic perspective why the four nations are color coded but imagine if that was just like...a thing in real life. like if you went to canada and everyone was wearing purple and you just had to live with that.

[homunculus-argument]

 Hey btw, another worldbuilding thing: You can, and actually should have weird and impractical cultural things. They’re not inherently unrealistic, for as long as you address the realistic consequences as well.

 Let’s say you’ve got a city where there’s tame white doves everywhere. They’re not pests, they’re regarded as sacred, holy protectors of the city, and the whole city cares for them and feeds them like they’re pets. They’re so tame because it’s a social taboo to hurt or scare one. Nice pretty doves :)

 Then someone points out that even if they’re not seen as pests, doesn’t having a completely unchecked feral pigeon population - that not only isn’t being culled, but actively fed and cared for - mean that there would be bird shit absolutely all over the place?

 A part of you wants to say no, because these are your nice, pretty doves. To explain that there’s a reason why they’re not shitting all over the place, maybe they’re super-intelligent and specifically bred and trained to not shit all over the place. The logistics of how, exactly, could anyone breed and train a flock of feral birds go unaddressed.

 An even worse solution would be to not have those birds, editing them out of the world. No, they spark joy, you can’t just toss them out!

 Now, consider: Yes, yes they would, but the city also has an extensive public sanitation service that’s occupied 90% of the time by cleaning bird shit off of everything. One of the most common last names in the area actually translates to “one who scrapes off dove shit”, and it’s a highly respected occupation. And thanks to the sheer necessity of constantly regularly cleaning everything, the city enjoys a much higher standard of cleanliness, and less public health issues caused by poor public sanitation.

 The doves do protect the city. By shitting fucking everywhere.