Celebrated for her humanistic, domestic, and gorgeously observed novels about Baltimore’s middle- and working-class families, Anne Tyler is the kind of single-minded writer who has found her niche and writes it very, very well.
A character, like any person, is unique, and while they may experience the same events, each should have a unique response. It is these elements – the events and the responses – that define a character’s arc.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator questionnaire assesses how people make decisions, making it a powerful tool for exploring and developing your characters.
In realist writing, villains need to be at least a little relatable (a little sympathetic) in order to be believable. Not all villains have to be sympathetic, of course. Uni-faceted villains can still fill a strong role in the more imaginative or allegorical genres. For instance, we wouldn’t enjoy Edmond Dantès’ epic revenge if Mondego
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