Personality Differences in Your Characters
Posted under: If you write fiction, a challenge your challenge is to give each character its own personality. This is particularly difficult to do on paper, and it takes a careful eye to make men and women believable.
This evening, we received news that a friend’s son had been taken to the hospital because of the injury. My daughter, an extrovert, asked questions about whether the little boy was going to be okay, but that was about it. My son, who is four and has a sensitive heart, asked to pray for his friend, said a beautiful prayer, and then as we were getting pajamas on, he sat down on the stairs and cried for his hurt friend. The events did not seem to affect my daughter.
Two lessons you could apply to your own writing journey: First, pay attention to the small stuff in regard to a personality. My daughter read a book about a cat who died; immediately after hearing about her friend’s injury, she found her pet cat and stroked it. My son, on the other hand, showed his grief.
Not everyone will respond to a situation by crying or getting angry. Instead, the window into a person’s soul may come in all forms, shapes and sizes.
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