Different Kinds of Characters

You'll have essentially three types of characters in your story: major, semi-major, and minor.

Major characters are those who are the focus of the action. The two people in a love affair. The detective who is investigating the murder. The father of the victim who is grieving. In my Kearney mystery the major characters were Will, Henry Harrier, and Julie, Henry's daughter.

Minor characters are basically no more than plot devices. A cop directing traffic. A kid cutting the grass. In my Kearney mystery, the waiter who brings Will and Henry their meals the first day of the investigation is a minor character.

The rest of them range in the middle. In the Kearney book, the police detective was a semi-major character. He influenced the action but was not the focus of attention. The person who did the murder was semi-major. To move writers' careers along is what I am saying helpful?

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