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In our continuing quest to write 750 words per day for a month, today we will look at unlikeable main characters. Here’s the thing: readers need to LIKE your character. Why else would they spend hours walking in their shoes? But what if your character is in mental anguish, or like to hurt puppies, or [...]
I’ve been working on my plot this week – which means I’ve been working on character. I’ve been struck again by how interwoven these two are. We artificially separate them out to talk about them, but in practice, you can’t work on plot without considering character. Conflict. For example, when I tried to decide on [...]
I’m worried. :-/ Are my characters boring? One-Note Characters One common difficulty is to create characters with a wide range of emotions. Yes, your character may be chronically sad or mad; but
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