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Character outlining is a very important part of novel writing preparation. The more you know about your characters, the easier it is to plan and outline what happens to them, and how they act, react…

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As writers, it’s our job to craft fully-realized characters—characters that feel as real as the people around us. And like the people around us, this means our characters should be flawed. Flaws and moral failings are, after all, an integral part of what it means to be human. Without these shortcom

We’ve written before about making sure your protagonist is interesting enough – that they have goals, a personality, and compelling flaws. They’re all essential steps to putting your reader in the company of someone they want to spend time with. Unfortunately, writing a great protagonist is one of the hardest tightrope walks of writing, and

Like many writers, I attempt to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) every November. Throughout the past couple of years, I believe I have finally come to terms with my writing…

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For readers to care what happens next in your story, they must first care about your characters. It’s your job as a writer to foster this reader-character connection, to build the bridge that encourages readers to invest in your characters’ stories. Establishing your characters’ motivations isn’t th

To create characters as real as the people around us, we must remember to forge for them their own unique voices. With individual personalities, cultural influences, experiences, and world views, its no wonder people verbally interact with the world in different ways, and so our characters should

When Sophia Vogel enters into her subjects' homes to include them in her photo series With and Without, she asks them what hobbies they're into. After they say listening to music or playing with my cat, Sophia asks them to perform the task regularly and then repeat it without any clothes.

What’s the purpose of an origin story? How do you create a unique origin story? And most importantly, will your character’s origin story be appreciated by your readers? It will be if it…

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