If you've read my other blogs on character creation, you know several secrets best selling authors use to create timeless, unforgettable characters over and over again. And keep their novels consistently on the top of the bestseller lists. In this blog, I'll reveal another little-known technique you can steal from best selling authors.
It's called Internal or External Processing.
Everyone on the planet processes information, whether its the latest celebrity gossip, a spouses sniding comment, or the boss's lingering hand on your thigh.
When it comes to how we process information, the whole world can be split up into two camps: the internal processers and the external processers.
What does this mean and how can it help you write bestsellers?
Keep reading. Internal processers like to think through information, chew on data, sleep on it before making decisions. They analyze, sort out and conduct mental arguments to come up with their choices. The main thing to know about internal processers is that they do all or most of their processing internally. Thoughts are key.
External processers, on the other hand, process their information out loud. They talk. They use words to sort through issues and to arrive at a conclusion. The key to external processers is that they all or most of their processing out loud with words. Words are key.
So, to create unique characters in your story, consider whether your main characters or minor characters process information internally or externally. Avoid having every fictional person in your story process information in the same way. Mix it up.
To sum it up, internal processers process information inside of themselves; external processers process information outside of themselves.
Keep writing.
C.H. Kokoski
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