All posts tagged "characters"
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Jade Craddock | October 8, 2018
Every character needs a full and complete backstory – Katie Ginger
It allows you to flesh out your characters and make their emotions and reactions believable.
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Jade Craddock | September 26, 2018
The joy of the subversive heroine – S.E. Lynes
Letting our naughtiest self loose.
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Jade Craddock | May 30, 2018
Is it just me? Writing the outsider character – Lisa Walker
Don’t we all feel like outsiders sometimes?
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Jade Craddock | February 19, 2018
The art of using children AND animals in a novel – Lynda Stacey
Like a child, you can’t just allow them to disappear without trace for huge parts of the book.
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Jade Craddock | February 8, 2018
Real-life characters – Elizabeth LaBan
'Anyone who knows an author has a chance of ending up in one of his or her novels,...
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Jade Craddock | November 17, 2017
The secret of narrative voice – Hannah Coates
Writers need to get inside a narrative character’s head - in this case it's a dog.
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Jade Craddock | October 25, 2017
Writing a three-dimensional villain – Liv Constantine
The most convincing villains have a piece of good in them somewhere.
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Jade Craddock | October 17, 2017
How I name my characters – Francesca Hornak
'Ideally I’ll find a name that actually looks like the character in print.'