Tutorial: Creative Writing: Portal Theory

There's a thing called Portal Theory. It honestly really helps with character creation. Have them hold some event in their past that haunts them or reason as to the way they act.

Have at least 2 events from a character’s past to have an enormous effect on the characters present and future actions.

Continuity feature – same physical features on 2 or more characters
o Shows they are in the same family, not just randoms

Omen – silence
o Something bad is about to happen

Talisman
o Can connect characters and situations together (in often a symbolic way).