There’s a secret to writing strong characters. It’s not about perfect dialogue, vivid description, or stirring emotion. Those are all important, but the most essential ingredient in making a character feel alive is an author’s insight into human nature. Without that, you’ll gravitate to stock characters and melodrama. Why do people do what they do?
You are in the business of creating art, and anyone who wants to create something is always on the lookout for the best tools. That’s why in this article I’ll be collecting together the many examples of practical advice that we’ve offered in our articles and on our site, as well as adding new exercises
‘Writing’ is a misnomer, used to group all the different types of behavior that go into a work. That’s a problem, because as a term it focuses on the ‘putting words on the page’ part of it all and leaves out the thinking, the editing and everything else that an author needs to do in
I’ve talked before about why beta readers are vital to your success. An outside eye can spot assumptions or omissions that a writer is blind to, so a book is quite simply not ready for publication until the author has heard from test readers. But essential as they may be to a book’s success, most
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