The Writer's Digest Guide to Character: 34 Essays for Crafting Engaging and Believable Characters from Award-Winning and Bestselling Authors

Need help fleshing out your main character? Or maybe your main character is fully formed, but you need to figure out a supporting cast. Perhaps you need to give more depth to your villain or antagonist. No matter your character troubles, The Writer’s Digest Guide to Character has you covered. With 34 essays by award-winning and bestselling authors like Yasmin Angoe, Mia P. Manansala, Paul Vidich and more, you’ll get advice for ensuring your characters are believable and engaging enough that readers won’t be able to put your book down.

Get tips for:

• Creating backstory
• Developing a series character
• Writing villains
• Writing friendships and frenemies
• Creating families and multiple narrators
• Genre-specific advice
• Writing characters different than you
• Much more

Craft your most compelling characters yet with The Writer’s Digest Guide Character.

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