Michael

The trick is to make them as cliched as possible in the first draft (no matter how cringingly awful you think it sounds!) and then scale them back closer to normality in later ones. This way you get a really good feel for who the character is and it will be easier to write about them later on.

Hope that helps x

You mean, the vulnerable-yet-strong main character? The evil, world-domination hungry villain? Ditzy, snobby cheerleaders? Yeah.

I've found that my characters are always pretty much parts of myself. That helps them from being overly stereotypical. And if you're worried a character might be stereotypical, stop and think of what makes them that way and change those elements so they seem less so.

I actually have a problem with making the main character too...boring. The main character of my story is usually the one I don't care much for at all! XD;

Not in my most recent story, though, I love my main in that, so that's a relief.

In other stories I read or watch or whatever, too...I usually never like the main character much. I really dunno why.

But, as for stereotypical characters...I don't think I've ever made a main stereotypical, but as for side characters, I have a few of those...tough guy types who look mean on the outside but are really just softies. I can't help it though...it may be cliche, but I love that motif.

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