In order for your readers to like your book, you need to give them likable characters. Ones that they can identify with and care about. Here are some helpful hints on how to do just that.
Category Archives: Plotting
Are You Asking These Important Questions About Your Fantasy Settings?
Building the world for your fantasy novel can take you places you never expected to go. Think big—no—awesomely huge and outside the box. Here are some questions to ask yourself to help you do just those things.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/are-you-asking-these-important/
Representation in Fiction: How to Write Characters Whose Experiences Are Outside of Your Own
Writing only what you know can be a very limiting dictate, especially when it comes to writing fiction. So much of what seeks to pour out of our brains is outside our experience. Award-winning writer Diana Pho suggests some tools to assist us in writing outside our experience(s) and doing it well.
How to Create the Perfect Writing Process for You
Discovering and perfecting your own unique writing process is a little bit more than just trial and error. Here are some tried and true steps to help you along your way.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/how-to-create-the-perfect-writing-process-for-you/
PLOT HOLES AND POTHOLES: 8 COMMON MISTAKES READERS HATE—AND HOW TO FIX THEM
How to deal with the mistakes and mishaps you missed while you were writing your masterpiece.
https://annerallen.com/2018/02/plot-holes-and-pot-holes-8-common-mistakes/
Third-Person Limited: Analyzing Fiction’s Most Flexible Point of View
Peter Mountford pens an article that helps us to get a better grip on the most useful POV out there.
Writing Tips: How To Find And Capture Ideas For Your Novel
Trying to quantify the generation and capture of story ideas is an all too elusive concept. Here are some excellent ideas from Joanna Penn.
4 Things You Should Know Before You Quit Writing Your Novel
Writing a book can sometimes be your greatest joy, other times it can be the source of your worst pain. Here are some reasons from one of the most successful novelists of our time to think about before you consider quitting.
The 10-Step Checklist to Writing an Above-Average Novel
Ten steps toward crafting your fiction to be a cut above the rest in your genre.
Min Jin Lee: Finding Story Ideas That Truly Provoke Your Passions
Finding something to write about that inflames your desire to write is like striking gold. It’s rare and precious. Seek it out and mine it.
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