So, last week I talked about how I had gotten feedback that suggested my main character was falling flat. The writing books on my shelves gave me lots of suggestions on how to create an empathetic character: Main Character Empathy. But what about personality? How do we create characters who are just plain fun to [...]

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How do we make our readers care about our main characters? I routinely come back to this question because it’s one aspect of story writing that I struggle with. (And because the feedback I received this week suggested my main character could use a boost in the personality department *read: much work ahead for Shonna*.) [...]

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I’ve been traveling for just shy of a month now. (I just got home today!) So many times someone has asked me, “Where are you from?” I’ve been more confused about how to answer than most people need to be.  :)  I live in Sydney, but I’m not Australian and my American accent confuses people [...]

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