Character Outlining 101- Secondary Characters

All right, we've done the main character and the antagonist, but what about secondary characters? It's time to outline our SCs to keep our other characters company.

But first, who are our secondary characters?

Secondary characters are:

• Best friends
• Other friends
• Family members
• Fellow questers
• Sidekicks
• Love interests(But only if the romance is more of a subplot than part of the main story. If the story is based around the romance, I would treat their character outline more like a main character)
• Other important characters that aren't the main character or the antagonist

So how do we outline a secondary character?

Again, we start with the basic questions:

Name

Age

Appearance

All these are mandatory knowledge. I like to know what their favorite color is too, just for fun. I feel like that's important.

At this point, the About section could be helpful, but if you want a simpler format(since after all, these are SCs and not MCs), I would go with just a few basic questions:

What desire drives them in this story? (the 'need')

What are their interests?

What is their relationship with the protagonist, and how can they help the protagonist?

What is their opinion on what the protagonist is struggling with? (the protagonist's flaw)

What is their own central flaw? (is it similar or different than the protagonist's)

See, SCs aren't so hard. They're the easiest to outline of all the characters, even if there are so many of them. It shouldn't take long to rifle through all of them, and soon your protagonist will have a whole slew of good friends.

I really hope I was able to help you build your cast of characters!
Unless I think of any more characters that need outlining, the next in this series should be the last of the series, and in that one I will include the PDF so you can have printable outlines for all your characters!

See you next week!