Realistic characters for me are the ones that have realistic problems, especially ones that the reader can actually believe that it could happen in a real life person (of course I'm not talking about fantasy stuff). If they don't have the perfect personality, if they make mistakes that the readers disagree with, even better. For example, Peter from my original story, Mirrors from Afar, makes choices that the readers disagree with, on purpose. I don't want him to be perfect. I want him to be far from perfect, because that is realistic to me.
As for the dialogue, yeah, I put 'um's and 'ah's and pauses also. I usually have the dialogue in my head and imagine how the characters would say it before I write it down. Depending on the topic of the dialogue, those things are written accordingly to put the reader in the character's shoes =)
As for the dialogue, yeah, I put 'um's and 'ah's and pauses also. I usually have the dialogue in my head and imagine how the characters would say it before I write it down. Depending on the topic of the dialogue, those things are written accordingly to put the reader in the character's shoes =)
June 20th, 2010 at 01:13am