Create a profile for each main character that records their background, personality traits, motivations, and intended development across the story.

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The process of developing characters for commercial fiction involves two main steps: creating detailed character profiles that outline their backgrounds, traits, and motivations, and determining the relationships between characters to understand their dynamics and how they drive the central conflict and plot.

Steps of Developing Characters in Commercial Fiction

Outline how your main characters interact with each other. Think about their relationships' dynamics and how these relationships drive the plot forward or contribute to the conflict.

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