Developing Your Narrative

So far, if you were to write a narrative. You would just start writing about a person who does this, and maybe this, oh and they can talk to this person etc. But there is a more professional way of doing things.

When creating a story, game, or movie. there are a number of steps that can be used in all of them. the steps that I know of are as follows:

• Synopsis - A short summary of entire story
• Ask yourself - Why would people wanna read this?
• Write the treatment - The story line for each episode (In a book, this would be replaced with each chapter).
• Write the script/chapter/story
• Write a character dossier - A description of each character in your story.

This post, I will focus on the character dossier (because that is what I have done so far).

A character dossier is simple, write a description of each character. It should at least include the name of the character,their age, their gender and a brief description of their personality/part of their history where necessary.

Example

Name: Bob

Age: 30 or 40 ish

Gender: Male

Description: Bob is a builder, he likes to build buildings and drink tea. He spends most of his time working on construction jobs with the help of his evil mutated talking vehicles.

That is an example of a very short one. But you get the picture. The main reason character dossiers are used is this: They give each character a believable personality, and help you remember how they would react in certain situations. Don't forget to include extra information in the description about who they like, dislike and why.

Robert