Fiction writing requires complex characters, including dynamic characters who undergo significant changes in beliefs, attitudes, mindset, or lifestyle. Flat characters lack development, while round characters are multidimensional. Dynamic characterization often involves the protagonist and can result in significant personal growth.
In fiction writing, authors must develop complex characters if the stories are to be effective and believable. Many works of fiction, including short stories and novels, include dynamic characterization, which occurs when a character changes substantially over the course of a story. For dynamic characterization to occur, the character must be significantly altered in terms of beliefs, attitudes, mindset, or lifestyle. A dynamic character, therefore, has to change in more important ways as a person than just changing moods or getting hurt, or even dying, during a story.
Characterization in fiction involves creating characters with enough detail, nuance, and traits that readers can picture them while still leaving something to the imagination. Flat characters, often secondary or poorly characterized, are those who seem rather one-sided and simple, because the author has not fully developed them. Round characters, on the other hand, have been developed through their words and actions as well as through images, so they seem multidimensional and complex. Static characters, which may be round or flat, are essentially the same at the end of a story and at the beginning of a story, because they haven’t undergone any major personal development. Dynamic characters have undergone a remarkable metamorphosis at the end of a fictional story, compared to how they were at the beginning.
Dynamic characterization often involves the protagonist, or main character, in a story. A work of fiction might begin with a lucky protagonist who was selfish, petty, and unwilling to do anything to help others if there was no benefit to him. Over the course of the story, he may develop health problems and thus require the help and assistance of others, strangers and family members, to survive. By the end of this story, after recovering, he may have developed some insights into his character flaws, appreciate the help he has received, and decide to change his habits and help others. This would be an example of a dynamic characterization, because he had changed significantly and learned from his experiences about him.
In another story, a female protagonist might be too ambitious and too involved in her career to give her husband and children the attention and nurturing they sorely need. During the story, one of her children may develop depression and start having problems at school and with her friends. Her mother may then realize that in order for her child to be happy and healthy, she needs to be more involved with him. She may develop a healthy balance between her career and her personal life by the end of the story, as well as a renewed focus on maintaining a healthy relationship with her son and the rest of his family. This change of perspective would also be classified as dynamic characterization.
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