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Well Rounded Characters

Posted on Sunday, March 17, 2019 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

As readers we like our characters to be realistic. Authors need to add flaws and virtues to their characters in order to engage the reader with the story. We remember the characters who come alive best. Those characters have flaws.…

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Make Your Characters A Little Weak

Posted on Sunday, March 10, 2019 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

Good character development means making your characters as believable as possible. To do that you need a mix of characteristics and traits. Make your characters beautiful and vain, homely and giving, beautiful and unassuming, ugly and evil, lovely and evil,…

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What makes a good character?

Posted on Sunday, July 30, 2017 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

That’s a very good question. The best characters are flawed. They are neither wholly good or wholly evil. They do their best with good or bad results. In short, they are like real people. They drink, swear, and lie. They…

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