10 Rules to Create Compelling Characters

As cruel as this sounds, catastrophic mistakes (the kind often written about) rarely resolve themselves quickly, so as important as it is...

Though the identity of a character reveals itself over the course of a story, there are often a few key moments where the character,...

Your character should have an opinion about an issue (or multiple issues) in their world, even if it isn't the main conflict of the...

Everyone has their own unique voice-- both the one inside their head and the one they project to others. When writing the voice of your...

Character driven stories focus on emotions, beliefs, and development as opposed to stories that are driven by the plot. By creating a...

Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, once outlined a pattern he saw within stories (specifically tragedies, but the theory can be...

A "little scene" is a part of a story where the event that takes place isn't directly relevant to the plot and acts as a buffer against...

Everyone has a past, and characters should be no different. However, this shouldn't be written as an "info-dump" of random facts (it's...

Of course, not every character in your story is going to be the main protagonist, but they should still be individual. Whether it's the...