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