Characters Articles

How to Use Personality Types to Deepen Your Characters

By Hope AnnIf you’ve been an author for any length of time, you’ve probably heard about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Maybe you're enthralled with it. Maybe you’ve glanced at the confusing muddle of letters and given up...

Are You Helping Your Protagonist Cheat Her Way to Victory?

By Rachel KellerYou’ve written a novel that you love (ironically) beyond words and handed it to beta readers to prepare it for the final editing stage. You’ve aced all the details (characterization, plot, theme, setting). You’re...

Why Characters Who Love Each Other Won’t Ruin Your Novel

It's possible you were taken aback at the title of this article. Maybe you once read a novel about happy people doing happy things in a happy world that caused you to cry in agony and run as fast as you could in search of a caged...

Seven Reasons Writing Fanfiction Can Make You a Better Writer

By Sierra RetDisciplines in the writing field that were once considered frivolous wastes of time have become respected and appreciated by our society. Journalism, novel writing, and poetry are all prime examples. One sizable genre...

Three Tips for Writing Realistic Character Arcs

Feb 26, 2018 | Articles, Characters

What’s worse than an unbelievable plot that breaks every rule of reality?An unrealistic character arc.From the first...

Why Twilight Sells (and Your Book Doesn’t)

Jan 26, 2018 | Articles, Characters, Platform & Career

Twilight is one of only two books I’ve been tempted to throw across the room.Because my copy was from the library, I...

Engage Readers by Giving Your Characters Unfulfilled Motivations

Jan 2, 2018 | Articles, Characters

By Lindsi McIntyre Without motivations, protagonists will be awkward observers to the happenings around them. They...

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