by Josiah DeGraaf | Jan 10, 2017 | Video
“Aren’t these videos supposed to be posted on the 1st of this month?” you ask. “Isn’t this rather late for the next Character Types video to go up?” It’s a good question. And one that we’re going to be mum on. Anyways....
by kingdompen | Jan 9, 2017 | Articles, Characters
One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to allow all your protagonists to get along with each other. Many of us are inclined to do this because we love our characters. The protagonists are all working together toward the same goal, right? So why...
by Josiah DeGraaf | Nov 1, 2016 | Video
We all know that parent in YA novels. You know: the one who doesn’t know what’s going on and opposes the young protagonist for most of the book–but then finally admits that their child was right all along right before the book ends. If you...
by Josiah DeGraaf | Oct 1, 2016 | Video
You know that side-kick character that’s supposed to be funny but really isn’t? Yeah, we know about that character too. And we dedicated a whole video to talk about how to do a comic relief character well without falling into that annoying stereotype....
by Josiah DeGraaf | Sep 12, 2016 | Video
So, as I explained at the end of our September video on the Damsel-in-Distress character, while we were shooting our September video, the three of us (Daniel, Anna, and myself) kind of got into a bit of a debate about the damsel-in-distress character type and whether...
