How to Create Authentic Characters

How can we create authentic characters? What is the magic behind exploring their lives and weaving them into our stories? 

Talking with Tasha is an absolute blast! Tasha is a fantasy writer who has been pubished in multiple anthologies and has a novel coming soon! She has beautiful insights on creating characters.

Here are some of things we discuss: 

1. Some character seem to be real people with minds of their own. How do we get to know characters like this? We talk about the magic of documenting the story you see in your head instead of forcing it. 

2. How do we deal with side characters? What do we do when they are too quiet or too loud? Sometimes characters get really annoying or surprise us. We talk about our frusterations and joys with these characters who get less screen time but are no less important. 

3. Where do we get inspiration for stories from? We talk about the beauty of fairy tale retellings and tropes. Playing with the magic of these stories elements is so important. 

4. How can stories work as therapy? We discuss a branch of narrative therapy. Writing the narratives of our lives can actually help us heal and see things more clearly. Writing can help us uncover truth, not just in the lives of our character but in ours as well. 

5. We wrap up talking about writer life - newsletters, getting published, building community, all that great stuff! 

 

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And finally, I wanted to leave you with one quote we discussed when, unfortunately, we weren't recording:

"Hope demands truth." 

As faith-based authors we believe in a truth worth persuable and worth persuing and with that comes hope. Happy Writing, Friends!