Creating New Characters

Freewriting Develops Characters from the Subconscious

© Jennifer Jensen

Mar 19, 2008

Daily freewriting time lets the voices in your head turn into real people. Let them develop and see where your new characters take you.


My last few blogs have been tied directly to my fiction writing class and our assignments. In our discussions, though, we’ve talked a lot about our reactions to our freewriting, what has come out of them, and how characters develop naturally.

Character-driven stories begin with story people who develop on their own, without being put into a pre-determined plot. It’s all too much information to put in a blog, so I posted an article, Let Characters Reveal Themselves, to talk about the process and how it works.

Set aside some regular freewriting time, let the voices in your head develop organically into characters, and see what happens!


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