In a previous post, How to Write a Genre Story: Characters: An Introduction to Character Tags , I talked about why tags are important for ch...

I’ve already gone over Swain’s idea of a character’s dominant impression , now let’s talk about their dominant attitude. A character’s attit...

  "A tag is a label, but a limited, specialized label. It identifies a character and helps your readers distinguish one story person fr...

Let’s talk about character tags.  In a later post I’ll talk more about how Dwight V. Swain and others thought of tags and traits. In this po...

What makes a character memorable? Deborah Chester writes in her article, Bonding with Your Characters : "We want readers to either love...

 Supporting Characters versus Main Characters We want some characters to be one-dimensional, characters such as the impatient pizza delivery...

Characters--Homo Fictus--are the raw material from which stories are created, but who are these entities who populate our stories and how do...

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