Hey, I'm currently plotting and slightly beginning to write my third novel.
Instead of a long novel, it will just be a short novel that will end at around 320pages.
The MC is going to be a little girl, the story will take place between her 6th birthday to her 11 birthday.
Her father is a man of 25ish years old. (I won't delve much about it here, but think of her father as someone super OP, super Rich, who went full-time housefather to raise his daughter);  he doesn't have any job, he doesn't need to work to feed his daughter.

The world she lived in is a fantasy world. She's not a reincarnee, she doesn't have a superpower, she's just a little girl raised by her single father.
What kind of thing would you want to see through the eyes of a child in a fantasy setting?
I'm planning to write that novel in First Person PoV, so yeah, the narrator is going to be an innocent child.




I kinda tried to do something like that with two of my first written novel, but I think I kinda ruined that premise with their own plot.
  I know some of you might give me this advice " remember what u used to dream about as a child", but dude the oldest souvenir I have of my childhood dream was to kiss every girl in my school, so this advice is pretty much useless.


NB: By fantasy, I mean a world of sword and magic, no elves, no demons, no angels just humanity  (yeah, we're the best race, and I'm proud to be racist). However monsters exist, but they are far away from that girl so there were be little to no interaction between the monster and the little girl.

I have two little sisters but sadly they are already corrupted by time and society, they can no longer dream of good fantasy.

Uhh, based???

Jokes aside, it sounds like you’re just planning to write a somewhat idealized medieval world. Why not discuss what her father does? Maybe he’s a blacksmith who forges weapons and armor for the adventurers who DO go and fight these far-off monsters, and through her eyes she sees his craft, observes the people he meets, and dreams of their heroics and antics? Or perhaps he’s an alchemist, and she is following in his footsteps - being taught how to make simple healing salves, how to identify reagents, and making friendly little visits to townsfolk in need of an alchemist/apothecary’s aid? 

I feel like the father is a huge focal point because, well, when you’re that young your parents are a huge part of your everyday life. Especially as a single father in a medieval setting, he’s going to be extremely important to her, or at least logically should be.

MarcieTheVillain Wrote: I feel like the father is a huge focal point because, well, when you’re that young your parents are a huge part of your everyday life. Especially as a single father in a medieval setting, he’s going to be extremely important to her, or at least logically should be.

You're absolutely right. I'm going to edit it right, I think I should've added more information about her father in the first post.   I already foresee from this a way of milking this for a good hundred pages.

My main qualm with people writing children is, they make them dumb. Kids aren't dumb, or stupid, they're inexperienced. So please, whatever you do, don't make this kid sound stupid.
Actually, this video is helpful for writing kids, especially in how they think and react.
From there, it depends on the kid herself. Some kids talk a lot, and when they say things it tends to be very ramble-y. Some kids don't talk all that much, and what does come out of their mouths is usually something they think is very profound. They tend to have specific interests, and know every single detail about one subject, while knowing absolutely nothing about things that don't interest them, even if adults consider it obvious or common knowledge. (Like, kids are famous for having the names of 200 types of dinosaurs memorized, what they looked like, and where their bones were found, while knowing nothing about, say, why taxes exist.) So make sure you know what specific interests your kid has.
Hope this helps!

My first chapter of Red mist, the main character is in the flat arc of the child(K.M.Weilands arcs) and then in all of the ones I’ve posted after that she’s arcing out of that/out of the maiden arc. K.M. Weiland explained the thing very well on her website.

Mad Wrote: My main qualm with people writing children is, they make them dumb. Kids aren't dumb, or stupid, they're inexperienced. So please, whatever you do, don't make this kid sound stupid.
Actually, this video is helpful for writing kids, especially in how they think and react.
From there, it depends on the kid herself. Some kids talk a lot, and when they say things it tends to be very ramble-y. Some kids don't talk all that much, and what does come out of their mouths is usually something they think is very profound. They tend to have specific interests, and know every single detail about one subject, while knowing absolutely nothing about things that don't interest them, even if adults consider it obvious or common knowledge. (Like, kids are famous for having the names of 200 types of dinosaurs memorized, what they looked like, and where their bones were found, while knowing nothing about, say, why taxes exist.) So make sure you know what specific interests your kid has.
Hope this helps!

 Thanks, it was very insightful.

I'm currently watching the video, I hope I will be able to make my heroine as realist and as lovely as I want her to be portrayed in my novel.

The three components of children characters (in my opinion) are:

1. Inexperienced
2. naïve
3. Literal

If you interweave those three characteristics into a child MC, you'll be doing better than a lot of other writers. Moreover, since you're writing about the child growing over the years, though, you'll need to balance it out as they slowly become more experienced, less naïve, and grow a better understanding of the nuances in the language of others.