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 […]

Here’s another way to generate character ideas. Substitute one reaction for another. We all tend to make our characters behave like ourselves or like people […]

Here’s a simple way to generate better character ideas, or story ideas of any sort. This isn’t so much a source of story ideas as […]

I’ve discovered a new source of character ideas, at least for me. Anyone can get ideas in the same way, even if not from the […]