Tagged: Characters

Examining ways to reveal more about more about your characters without telling the reader their attributes. 5

Revealing Character

There are many ways to reveal information about your characters when writing a story. Today, I am discussing five levels that reveal information about your protagonist or antagonist’s character, the internal attributes that are distinctive to a specific character in your...

Main and Minor Characters 8

Main and Minor Characters

There is a spectrum of characters in every story that range from main to minor characters. I read a prompt in “The Daily Writer” by Fred White that described characters as being either flat or round. A flat character can...

Character Names and Nicknames 10

Character Names and Nicknames

A common error in writing revolves around the use of a character’s name and their nicknames in a story. Luckily this is a simple problem to track down and fix, and once you know what the problem is, it’s quite...