Characters: Stronger, More Beautiful, More Enticing
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15 Days to a Stronger Character
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- Do You Use Swear Words in Your Fiction?
- Why Does Your Character Do That: A New Look at BackStory
- Why People Forget Your Character – And How to Prevent It
- Main Character: Who is Your Protagonist?
- Dialogue: 4 Ways it Goes Wrong
- Character Thoughts: Direct and Indirect Interior Monologues
- Complex Character Reactions
- 4 Crucial Yearnings to Enrich and Deepen Your Characters
- Grand Entrance: Pay Attention to This Character
- Don’t Write a Damsel-in-Distress OR a Modern Super-Woman: Be Original
- Outrage: A Negative Emotion that Works In Your Novel
- 4 Types of Villain – The Last One is Truly Scary Because He’s So Good
- The Power of BECAUSE: How I Created a Dastardly Villain
- Complicated Dialogue: Keeping 5 Characters in Line
- False Teeth and Blue Eyes: Keeping Track of Characters
- 3 Simple Ways to Use Photos to Establish Characters
- Point of View: Inside a Character’s Head
- Point of View: Outside/Inside a Character’s Head
- Point of View: Techniques for Getting Inside a Character’s Head
- Telling the Other Side of the Story: Switching Point of View
- Keeping Relationships Consistent
- Dialogue: Make Each Character Unique
- 63 Character Emotions to Explore
- Explore Your Characters: Be Surprised
- Imperfect Dialogue: Making Characters Sound Real
- 2 Dialogue Tips from Studying SitComs: Just Spit it Out
- 4 Things a Character List Reveals about Your Novel
- What Does Your Character Want?
- 10 Body Language Tricks for Deeper Characterization
- My Character is Like a (Fill in the Blank)
- Choose the Right Point of View
- 8 Dialogue Mistakes to Avoid
- Character Relationships: 3 Adjustments to Make
- Before and After: Reveal Character
- 3rd Person POV: Think Like a Writer
- 1st Person POV: Think Like a Writer
- Everything is Worse and Worse
- Give Your Character Something to Hold
- Subtext: What is this Story Really About?
- How Old is Your Character?
- Make Your Characters Move: Think Like a Writer
- Noses: Think Like a Writer
- Dialogue and Exposition
- Characters: Bigger Than Life
- Relationships Focus Characters
- Revise Grand Entrance Scene to Set up Character Relationship
- Mini-Conflicts Among Characters
- 3 Types of Character Arcs: Choose the Best for Your Novel
- Goal v. Fighting for Something Positive
- 5 Ways a Character’s Job Affects Your Story
- Call for Characters
- Character’s Inner Arc
- Dealing with Parents
- Personality: Creating Real Characters
- How Soup Added Conflict to a Relationship
- 3 Tips for Character Relationships
- Open up Characters
- Hurrah! My Characters are Fighting!
- Larger Than Life in Chapter 1
- Describing Characters? Be Subtle
- 8 Ways to Enrich Your Character
- Crowded with Characters? Create Mini-Conflicts
- Can you say that in a novel?
- Test Your Skill at Characterization
- Obamas & Twilight Impact Baby Names
- Character Arc and Epiphanies
- Are You in Pain?
- Dialogue Talk
- Character Checklist
- Develop Sympathy with Character Traits 9
- 9 Traits of Sympathetic Characters
- Separate POV chapters
- Character prompts
- Character and Plot
- interior thoughts
- character development
- Active Protagonists
- boring characters in novels
- motivation
- Supporting characters
- Motivations
- blood thirsty
- Multiple pov
- death
- Character Bait
- 3 Writing Tips from the Season
- Snooping on Characters
- Can Children’s Literature Change Nerds?
- Novel Characters Transform
- 3 Ways to Spice Up a Boring Character
- Difficult Topics for Young Audiences
- Difficult characters, difficult topics
- Sports: Passionate characters
- Strengthen Your Villain
- Villains to Imitate
- Villains Don’t Always Wear Black
- My Character’s Whispering Secrets
- 5 Ways to Keep Characters Consistent
- 5 Questions about First Person POV
- The Versatile Point of View
- This I Believe
- 5 Secrets about your Characters’ Secrets
- When Characters Show Their Weakness
- 5 Questions about Characters’ Desires
- A Year of Voice Descriptions
- Improving Character Description With Body Language
- 5 Tips on Character Descriptions
- Characters inside
- Character roles and jobs
- Character names and nicknames
- Fixing Problem Novels
- Get an Attitude!
- Theme affects Character and Actions
- Angel Moments in Your Novel
- Unique Character Dialogue
- Take Your Character’s Pulse
- Focus Your Story Development
- Emotional structure
- 2 Useful Views of Characters
- Novel diagnosis–dialogue
- Novel Diagnosis–Characters
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