Open positions for my Creative Writing Workshop: https://escritacriativa.my.canva.site... ✨ One of the biggest difficulties I've faced as a writer is creating strong characters that capture the attention of the people who are reading the story. As Assis Brasil said, the characters are the ones who move the story, so I've brought you some tips so you don't have any more doubts when creating them. Let's go? ✨ Buy books with my Amazon link: https://amzn.to/3wpnELM ✨ ✨ Buy a Kindle like mine: https://amzn.to/3kWaf8i ✨ ✨ Read the article on the blog ✨ https://escritacriativa.co/2022/03/17... ✨ Discover my ceramics brand ✨ https://venereinceramica.com _____________________________ ✨ Follow on social media ✨ SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWSLETTER: https://anabarros.substack.com INSTAGRAM: / escritacriativa.co TWITTER: / anacsbarros_ BLOG: https://escritacriativa.co MEDIUM: / anacsbarros MORE LINKS: https://linktr.ee/escritacriativa.co 0:00 Introduction 2:37 Physical characteristics 4:06 Desires and goals 5:11 Hobbies and interests 6:03 What to show and what to hide 7:07 Contradictions 7:47 Specificities _____________________________ ✨ WRITING BOOKS I RECOMMEND ✨ Writing fiction - A manual for literary creation: https://amzn.to/3xoEmeb How to find yourself in writing - The path to awakening the loving writing in you: https://amzn.to/3E7G9qJ To read like a writer - A guide for those who love books and for those who want to write them: https://amzn.to/3xncmHE Writers' Workshop - A manual for art and fiction: https://amzn.to/3DNoOmB The Writer's Journey - Mythic Structure for Writers: https://amzn.to/3HLMyd8 How fiction works: https://amzn.to/312pk1Z On Stephen King's writing: https://amzn.to/3p2SN3B Writing with the soul - Free the writer within you: https://amzn.to/311RbPz Writing by Marguerite Duras: https://amzn.to/30T1ohz The art of the novel by Milan Kundera: https://amzn.to/30SE8zL _____________________________ ✨ COME READ CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN WOMEN WITH US ✨ https://escritacriativa.co/clube-do-l... Video where I talk about the Contemporary Book Club: • 12 BOOKS BY BRAZILIAN WRITERS ... The CONTEMPORARY Book Club is a space dedicated to reading by contemporary Brazilian women. Meetings are held online and take place once a month. We are in our third edition! ✨ Book List Contemporary Book Club 2022 ✨ 01/26 - First I Had to Die - Lorena Portela: https://amzn.to/3nQUJNs 02/23 - Empty Glass - Natalia Timerman: https://amzn.to/3HZbhuz 03/30 - The Pediatrician - Andrea del Fuego: https://amzn.to/3CTeLuX 04/27 - Chinese View - Tatiana Salem Levy: https://amzn.to/3DYgEYv 05/25 - The Extinction of Bees - Natalia Borges Polesso: https://amzn.to/3nSQKzN 06/29 - It's Always Time for Our Death, Amen - Mariana Salomão Carrara: https://amzn.to/3laZz6s _____________________________ The character is the soul of the story, it is with him that people You will identify with them. He can be a villain, a hero, someone super naive, or cruel. He can be anything you want, really, and if you put the tips I'm going to give you in this article into practice, he will become someone deep and interesting, who can be loved or hated, however you want. Of course, you don't need to include all of these tips in your story, but it's good to know that there are countless characteristics to transform your characters into real people. I want you to have control over what will or won't be in your story, so you can choose what makes the most sense to you. In any case, there will always be flat characters and round ones, as they say in writing books, you can choose what face to give this character, do you want him to be more complex? Or simpler? What do you want to show with each of them? There is no magic formula, you have to put the ingredients that make the most sense to you. Anyway, let's get to the 10 tips on how to write a complex and deep character?