Character development 5 steps

1. create a list of strengths and weaknesses

Make a list of strengths your characters have and list the weaknesses side by side. This will give you a little insight on how the character is.

2. Backgrounds

Create a background or a past for your character that helps or hinders the character during the conflict. You don’t always have to include it in stories, but if you do it will be etched firmly in the readers mind.

3.Flaws

No one is perfect, create a list of flaws that your characters have, it can be related to her weaknesses too.

4.Unique features

Let the reader have something to remember the character by, her hair or her eyes. Anything you like!

5.Diverse cast

If you are including you character with other secondary characters, make sure they’re diverse, people with a common goal but different abilities create more action and adventure and create a sense of diversity, because after all no one is the same.