Month: January 2018

Are the character relationships in your story authentic? As storytellers, we often look for ways to make our characters as lifelike as possible: we give them internal struggles, external goals, difficult challenges, and hard choices to make, all while raising the stakes and doling out consequences for every action our characters take. Today let’s examine… via… Continue reading Creating Authentic Character Relationships — Writing Forward

Fiction writing exercises for developing characters. Writers are not actors, but sometimes we need to get into character. To truly understand the nature of a character, a writer must step into that character’s shoes. You can use character sketches and descriptions while you’re creating a character, but the character will remain two dimensional until you… via… Continue reading Getting Into Character: Fiction Writing Exercises — Writing Forward