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Character Traits to Push Your Character into Interesting

January 11, 2013 by Kathy Steffen 5 Comments
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Characters without trouble who do no bad things (have no flaws) are boring. And will take your story nowhere. So what do you do? Push your character in every way that it counts.

Posted in: Characters, Writing Craft Tagged: character fear, character flaws, character traits

Find Character Motivation Thru His Past and Fear

October 14, 2011 by Kathy Steffen 6 Comments
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The underneath is where a reader connects and empathizes with your character. Although a reader may not be privy to this skeleton from the start of the story, she can sense when it’s there and will look forward to peeling back layers of the character until she gets to the truth.

Posted in: Characters, Writing Craft Tagged: character development, character fear, character motivation

Use Fear as a Writing Prompt

September 23, 2011 by Kathy Steffen 8 Comments
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Gandhi was right…fear has its use, so use it as a creative writing prompt. Look through the following fears, choose one for your character, then begin answering the questions following the fear list and let your story flow.

Posted in: Writing Craft, Writing Prompts Tagged: character fear, creative writing prompts, ideas

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