Character flaws in fiction are desirable. If you characters don’t have flaws, they don’t have dimension. Building in flaws makes it easier to build story. I’m talking about your villain here as well as your hero. Character flaws – hero This is the common one people discuss. A perfect hero …
I like to read a lot of transformation stories. Romance, coming of age, quests, all kinds of stories have characters that need to change so that they can be successful. I’ve been trying to work out why some of them crawl into my heart and make me love them despite …
When I create a character for my books, I use pictures of people I find on the Internet. It helps me be consistent when I mention eyes, hair, height – the basics. I don’t often do detailed descriptions in my books because when I read I like to imagine what …
I just saw The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with my mother. A matinee so the experience was flavored with that feeling of playing hookie, and it’s a sunny and warm day, so a taste of ‘we should be playing outside’ added to it. It’s a movie about a group of …
