Writing Characters Your Readers Will Love: Character Profile Secrets

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Subscribe and follow our How to Write a Book series and learn in this video how to write characters your readers will love by building character profiles.
We don’t need to tell you that a believable and well rounded character is the backbone of a good book. It’s easy to apply this to your protagonist but Sarah Juckes tells you why exactly you need to build profiles for ALL of your characters. Yes, all of them!
It’s not easy, believe us. Getting to know your characters individually takes a whole load of time. Just like getting to know a person does. You don’t get there by guessing, you ask. A lot. 100 times (at least). If you follow our writing tips, you’ll be guaranteed a quick cheat to creating characters that come to life.
But, how do you even start answering these questions? Now, that’s the question. Well, start by answering them quick fire style. Don’t worry about making mistakes, you can always revise your answers. For now, get something down and you’ll be well on your way to writing characters that will stick with your readers well after they’ve finished the book.
This is just the start. Your characters are complex beings and you can adapt these profiles throughout your writing process.
Don’t forget, if you liked our writing tips in this video, we have so much more to offer. Click on the link below to download our Ultimate Character Builder worksheet, including 100 questions to get you started profile building. Taking you, step-by-step, through writing
well-rounded, believable and multi-dimensional characters your readers will love (or hate!)

[@eeman13]

I down loaded the sheet and it's really really good.
Thank you so much

[@yvonnemuller7274]

Hi, I loved this video and will use the script to go over my characters again. Since I'm not a native English speaker, I struggled to understand everything due to speed and pronunciation. Maybe there is a chance to slow down in future videos? That would be great. ~ Yvonne

[@kit888]

There's a TH-cam setting to change the playback speed.

[@borednow]

there is a constant annoying crunchy squeaky sound... like the floor or shoes