You know you're a writer when ~
When you're a writer, you'll know.
on the left hand side under the picture there’s a box. Click on ‘submit’ (or ‘ask me anything!’ if you want to) and then type in what you want to say, e.g. ‘you know you’re a writer when you write things’. You can ask for a specific background colour if you’d like, and then eventually I’ll get round to making it into a picture and posting it on the blog.
When you’re trying to think of what characters are going to look like, there are a few things you can do:
- Draw them! It doesn’t matter if you’re not exactly a brilliant artist, it’ll help to get your thoughts onto paper better.
- If you really don’t want to draw then there’s always dress up games. My favourite website to use is www.dolldivine.com. I especially love the game of thrones one, although whether that’s useful or not will all depend on your setting.
- Don’t want to make a picture at all? Look at celebrities or people you know and change a few key features so they don’t look exactly the same. That and the completely different personality/backstory will make them seem like completely different person, and there you go!
As for names, I like to use www.nameberry.com. It’s got some good lists of names and it’s generally very useful.
A character voice journal is basically like keeping a diary from your character’s point of view. It doesn’t have to really about anything in particular, you can write about whatever you want! It helps to develop your characters’ voices as individuals so they don’t all sound the same (or like you), and occasionally you can find out new things about them. You can get more information here.
it’s inthosemomentsdeaththought.tumblr.com! (I hope you enjoy excessive fangirling and crying).
