Characters: Overview
October 20, 2024 vers. 1.0
Overview
Use Storyfyre to create and describe great characters for your story. It's fun, motivating. The more you know about your characters, the easier it is to write the story.
Characters are the life-blood of stories, they tell and show your story.
Understanding your characters helps you learn where your story is going.
Use your Characters to let your character imagination roam. Characters and your characters view are an important part of your story bible.
Create/edit your Characters and their attributes. Storyfyre makes creating your characters easy.
Download/export your characters view, character templates, and character data to use in other places and to back it up.
Welcome to your Characters.
Write faster, rewrite faster, write better characters. Finish more stories. Have more fun.
What this Tutorial Covers
Basics
The Characters View consists of a set of easy and quick-to-use areas to help you create, map, plan, and organize your characters better after you write them or when you originally create them.
The characters view makes the best of your writing and thought time, to create better characters, stories, and even more writing time.
It also includes the ability to create, edit, and even reorder/move your characters and their character attributes.
* In a future version you'll even be able to filter your characters based on story and user created tags, filters, character/story tags etc... And you'll be able to label and group your character attributes.
The characters view flexibly helps you do it your way, no matter what writing or character process you use. It keeps the fun in characters and writing, but removes the work, makes the work fun.
How to Use
- Create, fix, plan, edit, name, rename, rewrite, or add an existing character, after you write them.
- Create, plan, organize a character before you write them.
- Download character information from your story bible, story map, scene map, characters view using that infomation in other places.
- Understand, think through, add to, and fix a character that isn't quite working.
- Generate momentum in your story or novel by concentrating on its characters for a while.
- Create a character bible, story bible, scene bible, characters view for your story, novel, book.
- Take your character bible, story bible, scene bible, characters view for your story, novel, book along with you on any device to view or work on, anywhere.
- Plan, write, a screenplay, article, thesis, speech, story or other written item based on your characters.
- Quickly understand/redo characters in a story for a tighter, better story.
- Clean a novel or book's characters up before publishing the book/story.
- Make sure a novel or book's characters are right, before putting it out for beta reading.
- Getting character feedback you don't understand? Understand your characters first and their attributes end to end.
- Remove writer's block from writing or rewriting using character information and working on a character, to write faster.
- See if you need to have a different view of your characters fast.
- Have a story or series that is quite long and can't remember everything? Create your story/book/character bible.
- Write, rewrite characters faster using a character bible.
- Use Storyfyre Characters with Microsoft Word and any other writing softwares to turn them into story, novel, book writing machines. Or use your character bible outside of your story in HTML.
Learn about your story's Characters and let your characters help you write the story.
Whether you create your characters while you write or before you write, keeping track of your characters is important and creating them is fun.
Knowing why a character acts in a certain way/does something is important to the story. It helps you to know why they do something, before they do it. It helps you and the reader.
Storyfyre makes creating and managing your characters a blast and easy. Storyfyre frees you up to have fun in your writing again.
Add your character attributes, notes, thoughts, ideas, about your characters here.
Storyfyre won't write your story for you, but it will help you discover and write your story and characters better.
Our goal is to enhance the writing experience for every author. Fixing your writing thought process and character process fixes your story.
Get Started
The Storyfyre Characters work area is divided into a Top Menu, and under that an Area Toolbar, a Work Area, a soon to be added Filter Area(next version), and depending upon your writing device screen size a left hand Hover Action Menu.
(On smaller screen devices the left hand Hover Action Menu is hidden under a three-line hamburger menu on the top menu.)
(Larger screens will display the left hand Hover Action Menu.)
The Top Menu is the same for all areas of the software.
On the Characters View Top Menu we have added an Add Character quick action icon button .
Or you can use the 3 dot ellipsis Create/Customize menu icon button located on the Top Menu to quickly Add Characters to the Characters View and to access all the Create/Customize menu features.
The Create/Customize menu features are discussed in the Storyfyre Welcome Guide area:
Storyfyre: Overview.
Use the Quick Tips for the Characters View found under the help menu icon button on the Characters View toolbar for a fast start.
Characters Quick Tips help you quickly start using the Characters View to create/map/plan/replan a character and character attributes.
Next you'll find the Characters Filter Area and Characters Toolbar just below the Top Menu.
We'll cover the Characters Toolbar and Filter Area separately in the Characters Toolbar Help Area:
Characters: Toolbar
And in the Characters Filters Help Area:
Characters: Filters
Characters Areas
The characters view contains the following:
Characters: Toolbar:
Navigate the Storyfyre software areas, Use the Characters filters and toolbar functionality
Characters: Toolbar
Characters: Characters:
Add/Create, edit, delete, manage, move and order Characters.
Characters: Characters
Characters: Character Attributes:
Add/Create, edit, delete, manage, move and order Character Attributes.
Characters: Character Attributes
Characters: Filters:
Filter your Characters/Characters view/what you can see by character tags, user created tags, character filters and more.Drill down and focus or keep it as light as you want to. Create character tags, user created tags, character filters, and more to filter your characters view.
Characters: Filters
Characters: Download/Backup/Export:
Download, backup, export your characters view, story map, story bible.
Characters: Download/Backup/Export Help
Limits
We know of some limits within Storyfyre, in each area we will try and list the ones we know of at the bottom, and ones which we intend to address with our future updates.
Filters, Character filters/tags, custom user tags and more will be added in the next version.
Storyfyre is growing daily, let us know what we can include. We appreciate your help.