In previous articles, we’ve taken deep dives into a few powerful personality tests to enrich the character development process. Today, I’d like to offer a glimpse at a selection of other tests that can take your characters to the next level and inform their interactions and motivations.
Verbal irony is the use of words to convey something other than their literal meaning. If you accidentally dropped the ice cream cone you just bought and said, “Oh, great!”, you’d be using verbal irony.
In many ways, writing a biography is arguably more difficult than writing a work of fiction. You’ve got to respect the truth, and the boundaries of reality and your own research limit what you can do with your characters and plot.
J.R.R. Tolkien needs no introduction. One of the most famous British writers of the twentieth century, Tolkien is responsible for, among other things, giving the world hobbits, orcs, and one of Sean Bean’s more moving deaths.
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