How to Write an Optimistic Character

Ok, so I've actually been thinking about this all week. Since I'm more of a pessimistic, sarcastic, and other words, it's slightly difficult for me to see how, well, people see the bright side of things... CONSTANTLY. I mean, it's cute and cool, and I particularly like characters like these, even though they tend to be the most innocent characters. So, basically, I did some research and observing on some of my favorite optimists and decided to do a post on this good stuff right here. :3

To start off, we'll make a list of character traits that they all seem to have in common and another list of what other traits are... we'll say cliched/common with the optimistic traits.

OPTIMISTIC TRAITS:

• Believing in everyone
• Having faith in everyone
• Trusting luck that things work out
• Looking on the bright side even when things don't work out
• Saying things similar to 'It'll work out better next time'

Ok, now onto traits that are common with these...

TRAITS COMMON WITH TRAITS OF OPTIMISM

• Generally happy characters
• (as stated earlier) Innocent
• Kind
• Second or more chances type of person
• Nice self-esteem
• High opinions on just about everyone
• Emotional
• seriously, protect these sweet babies

Ok, so, we've now gotten down the basics, I hope it was helpful to you. Remember, the extra traits are just what're common with these types of attitudes, so you don't need to have your characters particularly innocent or have a nice self-esteem to have them optimistic, these are just some helpful hints to get those exclusive types of characters that are slightly rare to come by. It would honestly be very nice to see new mixed new traits in with this recipe, so really, experiment, I'm sure it'll turn out nicely. 

~Rey Brooks