Tag: characters

Even if they’re set on the most fantastic, alien world imaginable, the stories we read are ultimately human stories. That’s why it’s important to write characters who are compelling …

If you Google any given writer’s process on how they go about their work, you are bound to find an endless supply of information. From anything to writer’s block …

If you’re like me, sometimes a creepy villain, or an anti-hero, becomes your favorite character when you’re reading a book. To have a good story, you have to have …

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one can be neither a student nor a lover of literature without at least once reading (and completing) a Dickens novel. This …

Flavia de Luce has the life so many bookworms have dreamed of – a childhood in a rambling, overgrown English estate filled with curiosities and surprises left behind by …

This is the seventh installment in a series of Baby-Sitters Club character analyses/essays. Turns out, the gals aren’t as rad as we thought they were back in the ’90s. Before …

This is the second installment in a series of Baby-Sitters Club character analyses/essays. Turns out, the gals aren’t as rad as we thought they were back in the ’90s. Mary Anne …

This is the first installment in a series of Baby-Sitters Club character analyses/essays. Turns out, the gals aren’t as rad as we thought they were back in the ’90s.  Let’s …