Do You Plot With Your Character In Mind?

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As you’re plottingrepparttar events of your story they have to correspond withrepparttar 128869 type of personality your character possesses.

What happens when you plot without thinking of your character?

He will act ‘out of character.’ He will do, say, think, feel things that don’t suit his personality.

For instance…

If your character is a worrier and you place him in a situation where he doesn’t worry, then that’s making him act according to how you want him to act in your plot.

You’re manipulating him to suit your plot - You’re not writing with his personality in mind.

As you plotrepparttar 128870 events inrepparttar 128871 story, simultaneously build your character.

Cross-reference what you have written about your character andrepparttar 128872 situation he is in. Do they correspond?

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Does Your Plot Suit Your Characters And Vice-Versa?

Written by Nick Vernon


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Now let’s see if we can make him believable. Remember he lives inrepparttar same rural area, so what makes him different fromrepparttar 128868 rest ofrepparttar 128869 workers who are willing to settle for less?

I could say he recently move to that rural area fromrepparttar 128870 city. He used to work as a union leader and wanted to get out ofrepparttar 128871 rat race. But having fought for workers rights his entire career, he can’t stand now to see injustices and comes torepparttar 128872 decision to fight for them and himself.

So this character would suit our plot because we need someone like him for our story.

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Example two – Thinking of a character first

We notice a man onrepparttar 128873 street. Something about him triggers our interest so we decide to write about him in a short story. So at this point we will buildrepparttar 128874 character first and then work a story around him.

Let’s go back to where we saw him…

He’s walking briskly along a busy street. He’s in a hurry. He’s dressed in a three-piece suit, which indicates he might be a businessman. He’s got a stack of documents under his arm; a briefcase in his left hand and his right hand is occupied by holdingrepparttar 128875 phone to his ear, which he’s shouting into.

Let’s observe him closer…

He’s in his mid thirties. He looks authoritative. Perhaps he has his own business. Why is he shouting intorepparttar 128876 phone? Perhaps one of his employees made a mistake, which has costrepparttar 128877 character a lot of money.

What if this employee maderepparttar 128878 mistake on purpose? What if he’s secretly working forrepparttar 128879 opposition, planted to destroyrepparttar 128880 main character’s company? What ifrepparttar 128881 owner of that opposing company isrepparttar 128882 main character’s own brother? Etc…

So as we analyze this character and ask questions about him, our plot begins to unfold.

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Plots and characters have to suit each other.

When we have finished plotting and are ready to writerepparttar 128883 story, they shouldn’t be ill-fitting pieces of a puzzle – They should be a perfect match.

Does your plot suit your characters and vice-versa?



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