Any advice for writing well written characters?
Hi everyone! Just for some context, I have had the fully fleshed out plot for this book since I was 15, obviously as Ive kept notes on it and grown as a person it has grown and changed with me. I was bullied a lot as a kid for my writing and my looks and fell out of my hobbies and just kept everything inside until now (22). What worries me is I could’ve just lost my gift? The moment I started writing again I was severely concussed by a client in my field of work and have been truly honestly struggling with even remembering how to speak and type let alone finally accomplish my dream and find the words I need. Even trying to be creative for my own mental healths sake gives me headaches and makes things difficult for me. I refuse to give up on these characters and their story and I am asking for simplistic easy to understand advice.
I have taken many writing courses, been to writing conferences, and have hundreds of notebooks with notes on this subject but the more I read other authors works, learn from them, and siphon through my notes the more lost and truly frustrated I feel. These are characters I have known with my whole heart since I was a lonely teen, I know where their story ends I know the trials they go through but now that I am to the point of fully fleshing them out I am at a loss and feel extremely disappointed in myself and my ability.
Can anyone please help a girl out?