Creating Characters One Layer at a Time

Creating Characters One Layer at a Time-Layer One-The Physical Must Reflect the Character

Complicated Relationship With Your Characters

Are You In A Complicated Relationship With Your Characters?

Character Motivation

Character Motivation Part One: Using Your Inner Critic to Shape Your Protagonist By Heather Webb

Character Voices in Non-POV Characters

I Hear You: Character Voices in Non-POV Characters

Get to know your novel or screenplay characters

More unusual ways to get to know your novel or screenplay characters

Quick-Create Guide To Kick-Ass Characters

The Zero-Fuckery Quick-Create Guide To Kick-Ass Characters (And All The Crazy Plot Stuff That Surrounds)

Character-Driven Prompts

Character-Driven Creative Writing Prompts

Stock Characters

What Are Stock Characters, and How Can They Enliven Your Story

Strong Character

Strong Character Is Strong?

Creating a Complex Villain

Writing Tips for Creating a Complex Villain

Matching Voices to Characters

Visual Mindscape: Writing Dialogue – Matching Voices to Characters

The Hero Fact

What Every Writer Must Know About "Hero Fact"

Overcome Limitations Of First Person

Overcome The Limitations Of First Person POV: 5 Ways

Address Concerns your Characters will be 'likeable'

Are We Too Concerned That Characters Be ‘Likable’?

Ways to Find Your Characters

Your Characters Are Lost: 4 Ways to Find Them

Multi-Dimensional Characters

Multi-Dimensional Character Building

Key to writing an antagonist

The key to writing an antagonist who comes alive on the page

Make Characters Drive Your Story

Make Your Characters Drive Your Story

Write Better Bad Guys

6 Ways to Write Better Bad Guys

Extreme Characters

Making Your Characters Extreme