I have a new idea for a story, and starting a story means new characters, and new characters means character development! I always have trouble with character development because my characters always seem to turn out different from how I wanted because I didn’t really know them. So, I tried something new. I decided to make my character write a letter to me telling me about herself. Obviously I wrote it, but it helped with character development. I wrote this in the car when I was coming back from camping. It may not make much sense, and it might not be very organized, but here it is.
To the Author:
My name is Stefana, as you probably already know. I heard that you are working on my character development, and since I know myself the best, I decided that writing a letter to you would help with my character development.
I am half human, half fairy. As a result of this, my powers as a fairy are very weak compared to the powers of full fairies. I cannot fly with my wings, and my spell to keep them invisible breaks whenever I am hit with a sudden emotion, because I lose my concentration. All through my childhood, I failed at many of the classes regarding fairy magic, and because of that, I had very few friends.
As for my looks, I have black, straight hair and it comes just past my shoulder blades. I have a round face and my nose has a few freckles, but they are not very noticable. People say I have long eyelashes and I have blue eyes flecked with purple, thanks to my fairy mother. I do not have pointed ears like the other fairies, because of my human side. Apparently my smile is contagious, but I do not really believe that because it took me forever to get Ril (you know, the other main character in my story) to smile. One other thing on my appearance. I am short and I have a large scar on my foot from a childhood accident (a story for another time).
My grandmother (who took care of me all my life) says I have a strange personality. Most of the time I am happy, but Ril says I exaggerate it. He says I am overly happy. But he’s Mr. Grumpy, so you don’t have to listen to him. I try to smile as much as I can, but I do admit, I can be over dramatic at times, especially when I get grumpy or mad. When I accomplish something big, I tend to get a little cocky, and when someone acts like a bully to me or my friends, I get hot-headed. I do know when to be serious though, don’t worry. When I am frustrated I tug on my hair (don’t ask me why) and when I am nervous I start humming to myself, which can come across as annoying. I also have many different types of laughs. There’s my nervous giggle, my happy giggle, my happy laugh, the laugh I use to mock people (please do not ask about that. You’re my author, I think you know what I mean) and my laugh for everything else. Come to think of it, I laugh too much.
There are things I am good at, and things I am awful at. I think I am good at singing, but I can’t tell because even when people tell you that you are good at singing, you never can tell because they could say that just to make you feel good. ONe of my secret talents is imitating bird calls. Studying birds was fascinating to me and I had a knack at imitating their calls. I do not know how that could be helpful in life, but that’s me, the person who has the most useless talents ever. I guess I am good at climbing trees, which can be helpful. I can’t fight very well, and the only thing I can fight with are my darts. I was in a healing class when I was in my fairy clan, but let us just say that I failed that. I know pretty much all the fairy songs there is to know and can name all the different types of fairies by memory (there is 117 types of fairies to be exact). I am an awful swimmer, partly because my wings start to hurt when I get them wet. I cannot run very fast, and am kind of clumsy (most fairies are very nimble. Again, this is my human side kicking in). I think I am allergic to my own fairy dust, because I sneeze and my eyes get all watery when I use it. I am not a good cook (but Ril forces me to cook anyway), and I cannot tell one plant from another. Thinking about it, I probably poisoned more than one person in my life.
I think I covered everything there is to know about me. Oh, I am afraid of being alone in a crowd of people and I am kind of afraid of dogs (any kind, it does not matter how nice they are).
Stefana
P.S. (I just learned to use that if I want to add something from another one of your characters. I have no idea what it means, but oh well…) I forgot to add that I am sixteen in human years and I age differently than fairies and that I tend to babble on for a really long time. Oh, and also…I forgot, but that reminds me, I am kind of forgetful at times. And that’s all. I hope that helps!
So, along with some bashing of a fellow character (who I still need to do some character development on also), I got a pretty good idea of who Stefana really is. I was surprised at how much just writing a letter pretending I was her helped me. I discovered something helpful, hooray!!
Before I end this long post…It seemed like yesterday that I posted the drawing of the week. Don’t worry though, expect another (and it may be a drawing in watercolor pencil) this week!
Anyway, bye!!!!!!!!!!! I had caffeinated chocolate ice cream, okay? I’m just a little hyper.
Ugh, WordPress didn’t publish my post yesterday (I’m writing this the day after I wrote the other part of the post, obviously)!! I have bad luck with WordPress apparently. 😛
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