Personalities Part 2: Goals

the goals

The next key thing involving characters is their goals. This chapter will be shorter because there isn't much that needs to be talked about concerning goals. The word itself is self-explanatory.

So, why are goals important? They are the things the character is aiming for, the reason why they are doing whatever they are doing. Now not all characters have goals...an example is school. If the character has a goal, it would be to get through school and go to College or University...but if the characters i being forced to go to school they have no such goals...in fact if they have any, then it would be that they escape from school and do whatever school is holding them back from doing.

Goals create a purpose for your character, a reason for their existance in your story. They help build up their character, and help bring to life what they want. It helps guide their story...and it helps the author and audience get to know them :)

I'm sorry for the short chapter...there isn't much that can be said about goals. By the way, barely anyone's commenting on this and that tells me no one is reading it. Even if you just ask for an update, that's fine.

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DemonDays #1 Jul 19, 2013 10:29:52

Chapter 10: Aww Whatever the reason is that you will be leaving, I hope it will make you happy:) Thank you for all the wonderfull tips and lessons~! ^^

InfinityRhapsodyl #2 Jun 26, 2013 00:22:38

Chapter 10: whoa.. actually I enjoying reading this.. but have not a lot of time.. so I'm still in the chap 2..
whoa..

peachysoo #3 Jun 24, 2013 20:39:55

You have some helpful advice, but the grammar and spelling mistakes that litter a few of your chapters take a lot away from what you are trying to tell your readers. It's great that you are trying to help others and give some good advice, but when your work is littered with mistakes, it takes away some of the credibility you are trying to build up with this story.

I'm not trying to be a grammar Nazi, because I'm not one, but it would help if you could check over your chapters for spelling mistakes and at least make sure you have the basics of grammar down like knowing when to capitalize your sentences. Especially when you often switch between capitalizing and not capitalizing your sentences. If you stuck to doing just one of them, it would have been okay (and I don't mean using all caps for words to provide emphasis, I'm meaning some sentences have the correct capitalization, while others do not), but you didn't and for someone like me, a lot of times I can't take what you are trying to say seriously.

So I'm not trying to be a hater or anything here, but I suggest fixing up what you have written a bit, because not only would it make you seem more professional but also give you some extra credibility points for those that may want to potentially use this. The ideas are good, but how it's presented may make some people question your advice, even if it's well thought out and actually good advice.

I can understand that there may be a few mistakes here and there, because not everyone is perfect, but going through and making sure everything is at least spelled correctly and basic grammar rules are followed for the most part will definitely help you in the long run.

DemonDays #4 Jun 24, 2013 12:51:02

Chapter 9: Even though the update was short you covered it well ^^ Maybe you have silent readers?

DemonDays #5 Jun 21, 2013 20:25:35

Thank you so much for this, tutorial(?) !! This is turning out to be so helpful :D

Kyungiiie93 #6 Jun 11, 2013 20:37:39

Wow *clap clap*
This is actually really helpful!
LOL I was just going through your stuff and got interested in this XD

sanjana_kalyanpur #7 Sep 23, 2012 03:53:06

Chapter 1: http://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/278862/superstar-nichkhun-victoria-you-luhan-ocs-romanticomedy
can u pls tell me how the story is? and give me some tips..
everything is in a dialogue form
pls tell me how it is!
thanks! :)

ampharoses #8 May 31, 2012 22:02:00

i praise you xD
My main problem is.. i'm too impulsive 0_o i write the first chapter of the story, then i COMPLETELY lose interest in it and stop writing it, especially apply stories. But i feel obligated to keep writing because they all worked so hard on their applications ....... ._.
anyway...
the big drama writing project seems cool, i would love to join but the only problem is that I KNOW i'm just gonna get lazy and never do my part T-T its awful, its SO hard for me to dedicate more than 20 minutes on writing per day... unless its a oneshot or something... o_o

kagaki #9 May 26, 2012 13:36:51

These are very good tips :)