With that said, let’s take a look at some guidelines for crafting a heroine. It’s not common, but consider The Lord of the Rings which contain multiple heroic characters.Ī lot of your story’s focus will lie on your heroine, so make sure you craft a complex and relatable character that the reader will love. The Great Gatsby is a novel where the protagonist (Jay Gatsby) isn’t the point-of-view character.Īnother important thing to note is that you can, successfully, have more than one heroic character in your story.

The heroine is the main character of a story.Īn important thing to note is that the heroine (the protagonist) doesn’t have to be the point-of-view character, even though it is fairly common. The heroine of a story is also known as the protagonist. I will go through hero archetypes in a post next week, but for now I’ll focus on heroines. Note: I have divided heroines and heroes into two different posts because the archetypes for these characters are somewhat different. I will provide examples of characters from both literature and movies/TV-series to provide you with an overall understanding of fictional characters. In this part I will show you different heroine archetypes. This is part 2 in a series called The Epic Guide to Character Creation.

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