{"id":928,"date":"2014-09-16T10:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T17:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2014-09-16T10:34:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T17:34:49","slug":"write-your-novel-step-by-step-21-auditioning-the-cast-for-your-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/write-your-novel-step-by-step-21-auditioning-the-cast-for-your-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Your Novel Step by Step (21) “Auditioning the Cast for Your Novel”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that you have mixed things up a bit with your potential characters, there is one last task to do before selecting which ones to hire for your novel: the audition!<\/p>\n

Each character is currently just a collection of traits \u2013 the parts with no sum. To know how each might play in your story, you need to get a more organic sense of them. In other words, you need to get to know them as people, not just as statistics.<\/p>\n

To do this, have each of your potential cast members write<\/p>\n

a short paragraph about himself or herself in their own words, describing them, their attitudes, outlooks on life and incorporating all the attributes you\u2019ve assigned to them.<\/p>\n

Try to write these paragraphs in the unique voice<\/em> of each character and from their point of view. Don\u2019t write about them; let them write about themselves.<\/p>\n

This will give you the experience of what it is like to see the world through each character\u2019s eyes, which will help you understand their motivations and also make it easier for you to write your novel in such a way that your readers can step into your characters\u2019 shoes.<\/p>\n

In the next step, you\u2019ll use these auditions to pare down your potential cast members to those who really belong in your novel.<\/p>\n

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Now that you have mixed things up a bit with your potential characters, there is one last task to do before selecting which ones to hire for your novel: the audition! Each character is currently just a collection of traits \u2013 the parts with no sum. To know how each might play in your story, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-write-your-novel-step-by-step"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36xpN-eY","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}