I'm writing a book and am still at the very beginning of the story's exact structure. I'd like to create an overview, and I know there are main and supporting characters. But what do you call people who appear very rarely in the book, for example, 1-3 times? Is there a vocabulary for this? 🙂
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Hello, I am currently writing a story. I have several main characters whose perspectives I've told the story from so far. One of the main characters has been absent for a long time, and the others were meant to think he was in great danger. But now they find each other again. I'd like to…
When you create an overview, it makes sense to expand it according to its meaning for the book. Of the main characters one should have a very accurate picture, even and above all from their goals and peculiarities.
It makes sense not to represent extreme secondary roles as an individual. Example in Harry Potter the pupils of Beauxbatons and Durmstrand. Apart from the characters that play a greater role, they are not named or characterized. To characterize them and make them distinguishable, you should write more about each individual you want to represent – and that for a person who doesn’t matter at all. The reader is both overwhelmed and bored.
If you are quite in the beginning You shouldn’t take any minors. All others as a group of people (Mitschüler, pupils of the parallel class, etc.) If you need a special person from such a group, you should characterize them if it takes an important role. Otherwise, they leave anonymously.
Some passing pupils of the parallel class crawled when they saw Klara fight with their shoes. “Don’t look so stupid,” she called the stupid geese behind…
Later you notice that you still play a role in the parallel class. Then you may change to: …one of them with a ridiculous, big plastic butterfly in the hair… And later the reader can identify the person when it occurs again.
To build a story, I use the snowflake method (or a personal modification of it) (like Rowling). Can I advise you at the point where you are, but is a big overhead before you really start writing – so it is only worth a thicker book.
Randfigures or side figures