How Do You Write Believable Hispanic Characters?
Part of every novelist’s job is to create characters that jump off of the page. Character development is so much a part of fiction writing that writers often attend workshops just to hone this valuable skill. Creating good Hispanic characters has a lot to do with avoiding confusion over historical and cultural reference, and having good general skills for making characters fully developed and completely your own. Avoid stereotypes. Over-generalizing is one of the most common ways writers ruin a character. This isn’t to say that observed cultural tendencies aren’t valid. For example, creating a Mexican-American character with a passion for Mexican history and a commitment to Mexican culture isn’t a bad idea, but the way to avoid creating caricatures of Hispanic characters is to give them their own personal attributes independent of their cultural roots to show that every person is inherently unique. Don’t confuse starkly different Hispanic heritage groups. One main problem is writers ig
