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\"YourLet\u2019s welcome back monthly columnist\u00a0Catharine Bramkamp<\/a> as she shares with us \u201c Your Characters: Your Babies.\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Ask me about a favorite book<\/strong> – and I\u2019ll describe the heroine.<\/p>\n

We often, if pressed, remember key points of a plot, but what really stick in our heads are the characters.\u00a0 We remember the who over the how, before the what.<\/p>\n

Do we love Jane Austen<\/a>\u2019s books because of the\u00a0intricate plots? Not really.<\/p>\n

The story?<\/strong> Please, we know the story. What we love are the characters, the strong women who get into trouble because they blurt out what they are thinking, the handsome hero who is just misunderstood, the spunky friend for whom we wish as much happiness as we wish for the heroine. We may not relate to the plot, but we certainly identify with a well-developed character.<\/p>\n

Listen to what you say when you play a movie for the fifth time, it\u2019s not\u00a0about the plot or the story \u2014 you just want to see the hero or heroine again.\u00a0\u201cI love him.\u201d You murmur under your breath.<\/p>\n

Character is why there is star power in Hollywood.<\/strong> Do we watch Brad Pitt<\/a>\u00a0because he has a reputation for starring in great plot-driven \ufb01lms? No, we do\u00a0not. Some people, who will remain nameless, would be happy watching Mr.\u00a0Pitt sell laundry soap. It\u2019s about character, charm, personality \u2014 if that sounds\u00a0like a beauty pageant, you are not too far off.<\/p>\n

Create a great character, Sherlock Holmes, Ulysses, Beowulf, Emma,\u00a0Chewbacca, Bridget Jones and half the novel, the very important part of the novel, is done. Now that you have the great character all that is left is to give him or her\u00a0something to chase\/slay\/find.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, \ufb01nd out what your hero wants. Then just follow him.\u201d \u00a0~Ray Bradbury<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are books and books and web sites and web sites and classes and\u00a0classes on how to create great characters. There is information on how to\u00a0describe them, make an astrological chart<\/a> for them, and write up their back-\u00a0ground. You can create notes on why or how your character will behave in\u00a0a certain way given a certain situation. You can add to the time line of the\u00a0character\u2019s childhood. You can know everything about your character: favorite\u00a0color, childhood trauma; when the parent\u2019s immigrated; the name of their\u00a0favorite pet now long dead…<\/p>\n

All of this work can be excellent exercises<\/strong>, and valuable as you \ufb02ex your\u00a0writing muscles; however, most writers will confess that their characters, the\u00a0good characters, are not so easily controlled. What many of us have discovered: as soon as you think you know everything about your character and as\u00a0soon as you sit down and think, well today my character will drive to the store,\u00a0\ufb01ght a dragon, and fall in love with the prince \u2014 they suddenly will not cooperate.<\/p>\n

Like children, \ufb01ctional characters are strangely resistant to The Plan. You remember the week after your precious bundles of joy showed up? You created the ultimate calendar of success based on the 98 books on child rearing you\u00a0read during the last nine months.\u00a0 You tracked to the hour\u00a0developmental benchmarks.\u00a0 You wavered between placing the child in the advanced\u00a0Yellow Tiger class or holding him back for another six months as a Blue Bear.<\/p>\n

You delivered multiple children to multiple lessons:<\/strong>\u00a0piano, trumpet, bongo. You spent months of your life driving\u00a0to band, ballet, tumbling practices. You\u00a0spent hours cheering from the side lines during little league, soccer, la cross.\u00a0 And what happened?\u00a0 At twenty, your precious bundle announced he wants to be a chicken farmer, an option markedly absent from the Goals List (subtitled Acceptable Careers Mom Thinks You Should Pursue) you created for him on his second birthday.<\/p>\n

Fictional characters will do much the same thing. Characters in your story\u00a0or novel will just blurt out comments; pursue the villain down unmarked streets and race so quickly away from your expectations that you have no choice but to just hold on for the ride.<\/p>\n

If your character<\/strong>, like a troublesome child, has run off the rails, what can you do? Follow them. Take notes along the way.\u00a0 \u00a0As traits and details about your characters emerge, just keep track. \u00a0Create a running reference list chronicling\u00a0his coffee preference, her favorite drink, what she hates, what he\u2019s afraid of. \u00a0Remember to note eye color or if she starts flipping back her hair.<\/p>\n

These notes will help with consistency as well as keeping your hero and heroine on track, not your track of course, but theirs.\u00a0The picture will emerge. Write it down as your character comes into focus.<\/p>\n

Someone needs to farm those chickens.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h2>\n

\"Catharine<\/a><\/p>\n

Catharine Bramkamp<\/a> is the co-producer of\u00a0Newbie Writers Podcast <\/a>that focuses on newer writers and their concerns. She is a successful writing coach<\/a>, Chief Storytelling Officer, and author of a dozen\u00a0books<\/a>\u00a0including the Real Estate Diva Mysteries series<\/a>, and\u00a0The Future Girls series<\/a>. She\u00a0holds two degrees in English, and is an adjunct university professor. After fracturing her wrist, she has figured out there is very little she is able to do with one hand tied behind her back.<\/p>\n

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