That's when we make sure we are dealing with our character and not
with his evil twin brother.
List up your characters and their personality as well as their
action-reaction type of things
People are extremely dull and repetitive, no, really! If your
character hates bananas, he is always going to hate bananas except if
someone invented a vaccine to make people like bananas and he got a
shot. Make sure your character is consistent, if he starts eating
bananas, you know you have a problem. (My demons don't eat fish.)
Same with emotions and motions.
Example: Isakael's wings always seems to
big for him to carry. Seti has a problem to be touched but that
disappears slowly....
You can also check for dialogue consistency even though we will go
to that later in the dialogue check and again in the style check. If
you are using accents make sure you are using them identically at all
time, accented words can go to the what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-me
word list because they are important.
If one character is always saying
a word keep it going, make it contagious.
Example: My Azazel says “Damn” a lot, so Kamaril says it too
(cause he can't stand Azazel but always refers himself to him) and
the people around Azazel tend to grab it for a bit...
That's also the moment when you'll have to say “bye bye” to a
character.
Check if his/her presence is justified. For characters
appearing briefly, check if people needs to know what happened to
their grand-ma, I mean know all their details information including
name. If not, use the cut-out file.
That's also the moment when you need more character or to make one
more important.
You need to make sure that none of the important
characters disappear prematurely. If that guy was there all the way
to chapter 15 then maybe you need to tell me something about him
before chapter 40 because I have a good memory but I have no idea who
he is anymore. Keep everything consistent.
If you want to suggest prompts, leave them in the comments, I'll be delighted to add them to my list.
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