How Outlining Can Bring Out Voice
Editor Gabriela Lessa explains how to use outlining to generate a strong voice for your characters.
Tag Archives: character building
How to Plot and Outline Without Using a Formula
When we talk about plot as separate from the characters, the symbols, the locales, the dialogue, and the philosophical introspection, what we are doing is privileging events over everything else. But nothing exists in a vacuum.
Incorporating Someone You Know Into Your Novel
If you can’t portray someone you know personally in a positive fashion, you will probably lose this friend and/or be sued for libel.
The Problem With Overly Nice Characters
What’s wrong with overly nice characters? To begin with, they’re boring. This is because they can’t abide conflict, and smooth it over every chance they get.
6 Exercises for Stronger Character Relationships
As writers, we can spend so much time “fleshing out” our characters as individuals that we forget about the connections between them. That’s why I love this piece by Yelizaveta P. Renfro that offers six concrete ways to think about your characters’ relationships. Here’s an example of one of the exercises: Bury your characters. Imagine […]