All posts tagged "characters"
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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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The joy of the subversive heroine – S.E. Lynes
Letting our naughtiest self loose.
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Is it just me? Writing the outsider character – Lisa Walker
Don’t we all feel like outsiders sometimes?
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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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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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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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Writing a three-dimensional villain – Liv Constantine
The most convincing villains have a piece of good in them somewhere.
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How I name my characters – Francesca Hornak
'Ideally I’ll find a name that actually looks like the character in print.'
