View and describe the world through your character's eyes

Understanding your character is key to writing him or her as vividly as possible.

Bestselling and award-winning author S. K. Ali believes that an important route to understanding them, in general, is clarifying how they view their lives and the world in general.

And this, she says, will help you develop a character that isn’t a carbon copy of any other one out there.

Ali lists three methods for putting your character’s worldview into plot action in a post at Writer’s Digest.

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