113 Ways to Characterize Your Protagonist
There are a lot of words that describe you and I at different times during the day. Our job as writers is to notice what those moods and attitudes are and put a word to them so readers will feel them. ‘Sad’ doesn’t have enough depth, but ‘bitter’, ‘stricken’, ‘grieved’, and heartsick’ all tell us more about the way the character is handling ‘sad’. They are much more compelling to the reader, likely to draw us in and make us like the character (which keeps us reading).
Here are more words with color you might like:
- absent-minded
- active
- affable
- ambitious
- amiable
- animated
- annoyed
- argumentative
- arrogant
- attentive
- bossy
- candid
- capable
- care-free
- careful
- caustic
- cautious
- charismatic
- charming
- clever
- cold-hearted
- compassionate
- complacent
- conceited
- concerned confused
- confident
- considerate
- cooperative
- crafty
- cruel
- cultured
- curious
- finicky
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