5 Ways to Create Strong and Believable Characters.

5 WAYS TO CREATE STRONG, BELIEVABLE PROTAGONISTS:

1) PAINT YOUR PROTAGONIST GREY.

 Don't paint your protagonist all good or all bad. Break out of the black and white morality and paint him/her grey. Readers don't like perfect characters. They are looking for someone they can relate to.

2) MAKE YOUR PROTAGONIST VULNERABLE.

Give your readers a reason to care about your protagonist, to root for them and be invested in their journey from the start to the finish. Show what makes your protagonist weak, what keeps them up in the night, what they fear the most, their insecurities, their prejudices, the parts of them they aren't proud of.

3) SHOW DON'T TELL.

Reveal the character of your protagonists by dropping seemingly irrelevant details about them, the way they walk or talk, what they think, how they interact with other people, what kind of music they listen to, what shows they watch on TV. Don't explicitly state what they're like. Let the readers perceive that through the details. 

4) PLACE YOUR PROTAGONIST IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS.

Create conflict, place them in extraordinary situations so much so that they contradict their natures, their beliefs, their core values. Shatter the images that you've created of them. Don't make them flat, predictable, boring characters. Every once in a while, make them do unexpected things.

5) LET THEM EVOLVE.

Let your protagonist evolve through the story. The way the readers find him/her in the first chapter should change by the time they reach the last chapter. The change can be a positive or a negative one but letting your protagonist evolve or transform through the narrative is extremely important.

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