Create Key Moments with Secondary Characters
Before we move away from characters for a while, I’d like to get you thinking a bit more about those…
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Secondary Characters Have a Life of Their Own
We all need a supporting cast in our novels. Secondary characters have to be in there, unless your book is…
Bad Guys Have a Story to Tell
Last week I dove into bad guys in your fiction. Before you say you don’t have a clear antagonist in…
History as Mystery
We’ve gone over some nifty things about character in the last few weeks. Hopefully by now you have gotten a…
Character Arcs?
Okay, I confess. I’ve never quite understood the use of the word arc when talking about plot and character. I keep…
The Clash of Characters
In last weeks’ posts I talked about how you can take an ordinary character and make him fascinating by developing…
Ordinary Characters Can Be Extraordinary
We’ve been going deep into character these last weeks, and I want to offer you some more ideas for developing…
Getting to the Core of Your Characters
Leon Surmelian in his book (written forty years ago) Techniques of Fiction Writing, has this to say about creating characters…
What’s Your Motif?
Motifs? Most writers don’t really know what they are, but they can make the difference between an okay book and…
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