How to Become a Professional Writer : Character Development & Being a Professional Author

Learn how to write good character development by having a bit of character information, but not too much information and peeking the interest of readers, in this free writing video series on becoming a professional writer.

Expert: Rebecca Sato
Contact: www.zenlife.net
Bio: Rebecca Sato has been a science and health researcher for the past few years. Her goal is to teach people to live a long and healthy life.
Filmmaker: joseph wilkins

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• writing
• skills
• language
• education
• college
• english
• grammar
• punctuation
• sentences

[Raenum]

Wow, thanks. This is really helpful. I've been coaxed to start writing a novel or a few short stories, and although I figured I could work out the plot on my own, I was very worried about how to create a character from scratch. I'd read elsewhere that you should "be able to say exactly what your character was doing on their sixth birthday", however I think this will let you discover more about your character, to the point that they're almost making their own decisions as to where the plot goes.

[rinkerall]

Thank you

[dearAfrica]

lovely, sincere, very helpful thank you

[dreamstarusa]

You're so cute... you have a great personality.

[bertini51]

I like it its a good idea

[Pacerjames]

Very 0:14 cute laught. Thanks for sharing your videos, I think you're awesome.

[Kayleighdh]

most of the characters from my stories are based on friends or random people I meet. The problem I have is that I always end up having tons of characters and I'm afraid it might be confusing for the reader.

[MadameLovrina]

I like some of the tips. For my characters, I usually base them off my mom or dad or my rellies because they don't read my stories.

[auronjamespen]

I am replying to all the comments made so far on this video starting from the top...

rinkerall, your very welcome.

Raenum, not all authors take this path infact though I have based one character on a person that I know, normaly I start from the begining and create the character from the day he/she was born. sometimes even before that.

NewYorkS4U, thats a great idea and I'm happy to hear how well it's working for you.

stitch 99, yay rubber band ball!

woops out of room...

[NewYorkS4U]

I'm already on the way with this. In my personal time I carry two notepads: one to write down possible scenarios and another to write down names and descriptions of people I either know or don't know. For creativity on my names/descriptions notepad, I can combine names and descriptions of two or more people to create a character. That's my reason to write, I wanna express creativity to the world and introduce new aspects and elements nobody hasn't created yet. I'm tired of the same things.

[stitch99]

I realize I'm not focusing, but RUBBER BAND BALL!!!!

I've been working on mine for years and it's huge!