Category: character
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Asking the 5 Whys for More Convincing Story Characters
A scenario: Your intimate love of 11 years arrives home one day and says, out of the blue, that he’s quit his job and enrolled […]
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Writing Your Characters Using the APET Model
Some of the most profound fiction-writing insights come from psychology, because the characters in fiction are whom you sympathize with, pulling you into the story […]
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5 Tips on Telling Backstory without Interrupting the Flow
A long time ago, in a post far away, Sara, a reader of this blog (at least back then she was; I don’t know whether […]
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PersonalityPage, Character Traits for Writers
I frequently use PersonalityPage.com to assemble personality traits for characterization. The site is not organized for writers. In fact, the site navigation is poorly designed […]
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Discovering Character Secrets from Your Relatives!
Much of the time, we treat relatives as obligations: “Yeah, but what can you do? He’s family.” This year, during the holiday break between December […]
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The Most Important Story Element
In the beginning, I was a software developer, not a writer. And if you’ve read any open-source documentation, you know how badly software developers write. […]
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3 Steps To Writing Winning Fiction Characters
(Originally posted on EZineArticles.com.) Character is the single most important aspect of a story, because if you have compelling characters, you can get away with […]
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Is my story cliché and contrived?
An actual question asked on one of the writer’s boards. An aspiring author gave a two-paragraph summary of his plot idea. He said he feared […]
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100 Free Fictional Character Ideas
… a tiny sample from 1001 Character Quirks for Writing Fiction. Literally, the full list is more than 10 times as big. Of course, the […]
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When to Use Character Quirks
I’ve read plenty of writing advice to improve your fictional characters using quirks, or hooks, or tags. That is, make the character more interesting by […]
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