How important are the characters we create in our novels? I’ve spoken about creating characters here before—tips on how to create well-rounded characters – but I don’t think I wrote about why it is so important to have real-to-life, likeable characters who develop through your book. Yes, you have to like, even love, the characters …
Tag Archive: Characters
Sep 23
Throwing Acid in Hrithik Roshan’s Face
I can always count on my students to enable me to teach my lessons in class. This past week it was a very sweet woman who has a great love for Hrithik Roshan, the Bollywood movie star. I told her she had to throw acid in his face. She screamed. Literally. Every semester when I …
Jun 10
When Characters Take Over
I am the most left brained writer you can imagine. I have worksheets for everything – characters, scenes, story structure, show & tell – you name it, I’ve got a worksheet for it (well, maybe not dialogue – for that and editing I use highlighting, but that’s another post). The point is that I plan …
Feb 05
Processing the Process
I not only walk the walk, I talk the talk, and I put my money where my blog is — is that enough clichés for you? What I’m trying is say is that after all of my blogging about marketing for the past two weeks, I’m going to start to show you about marketing, rather …
Jan 16
Chapter One: Characters
I know, it’s been a while since I promised to blog about each of the chapters in my new writing book — but, hey, better late than never, right? So, today we start with the first chapter and what I think is the most important thing in writing fiction: characters. Can you have a fabulous …
