Character creation, two words that for any writer or anyone who has ever role-played or played a roleplaying game (table top, LARP, or video game) is familiar with.   Without a character you can’t play the game, but what about writing?  Character creation is just as important to a writer as it is with a gamer.  You don’t have a story without characters.  Sure you can have an idea, a plot, setting and all the details that go with it, but without a protagonist or antagonist you have nothing to put all of that into play. Characters are like the actors in a movie, you can’t have a movie without them.  But how does one come up with characters?  the answer may seem simple, or complex.  Truth be told, there is no right or wrong way to creating characters.  Everyone, writer and gamer alike, has a method.

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