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writing characters older then me - Reddit

You can write a mid-20 years old person who can be a responsible adult, or one that has the moral black-and-white mindset of a 9 year old.

Writing Characters who are older than you | Go Teen Writers

Writing about characters who are different than yourself in age, race, religion, etc. forces you to really use those creative muscles.

Writing characters way older than you. - TV Tropes Forum

Modeling them as people makes it easy to write older characters than yourself. Think of it this way when dealing with older folks: How would ...

Writing different ages | Writing Forums

Does the character fit you at that age? Write that. This is not a challenge to fear. It will come up over and over again. And frankly, 75% of ...

3 Ways to Authentically Write Characters Who are Not your Age

The prob is this, bob: you're a kid who doesn't have enough life experience to know what struggles an older character genuinely faces. Or you're ...

How to write a character that's over a 1000 years old? How ... - Quora

I suggest reading works of fiction with characters that have lived that long. Most of them have experienced too many things and are always on the more reserved ...

On Writing & Roleplaying Older Characters - Springhole.net

They usually have more complicated and nuanced views of trust than younger people. You may have noticed that character profiles written by younger people often ...

Writing characters of different age groups - Art | Comics - Tapas Forum

Despite myself not having lived that long, my story leans more toward the experiences of these supposedly "older" characters. Sometimes i fear ...

What details in writing can you use to make characters look older ...

To make characters appear older than their actual age in your writing, you can incorporate various descriptive details that convey maturity and life ...

Writing a character older than you | Fantasy-Writers.org

So one of my current WIP has my MC as a person who is older than myself and is going through things (i.e. divorce, conflictions about their ...

Writing Fictional Characters Who Aren't Like You

The more unlike yourself your characters are, the more research you need to do. Monica, your characters are about ten years older than you. If ...

The Old Character - Gail Carson Levine

So you may benefit from showing the parts of your writing that feel artificial to actual older people. If you're reluctant to share with your ...

How do you choose an age for a main character - Absolute Write

I know I wasn't terribly interested in writing stories about people who were a lot older than me when I was in my early twenties, and when I did ...

Does The Age Of Your Characters Get Older As You Do?

I'm sure, like me, you can see a sort of pattern emerging. My main characters were always a few years older than me, no doubt because I kept ...

An Age-Old Question: How Do You Show a Character's Age?

Nothing would feel normal and readers would likely assume that author couldn't write. Getting a character's age into the story can be as easy as putting it on ...

So yesterday I asked you to share your book if it has a cast older ...

What is it about slightly older characters that we like and how do you write them differently from younger characters? Is it the relatability?

Writing “Women of a Certain Age.” A Roundtable on Crafting Older ...

... characters than I was aware of as a younger writer. In fact, I want my characters to be smarter than me! My two most recent protagonists ...

How old should your main character be? - Writer and the Wolf

Anything older than 19 is getting into New Adult or Adult fiction territory. Here are a few example of popular YA genre fiction and their ...

Older Characters - fiction - Writing Stack Exchange

Write about young characters and make them realistic. · Write about older characters and expect people to laugh (in a good way) at your ...

I'm Older than Everyone in Books and on TV and I Am Not Okay

I can cope with feeling less accomplished than my peers, but comparing myself to fictional characters still stings.